GValidator Form Validation Library

Introduction

GValidator is a lightweight javascript form validation library that automatically adds client-side validation to form elements, without needing to write a single line of javascript.

The aims of the project are to provide the following:

• A user-friendly experience
• A reusable and lightweight library
• Semantically clean code
• Web Standards compliant code
• Cross browser compatibility
• Code flexibility and extensibility
• Promote adoption via ease of use

To use the library without customization, all you need to do is include it.

Other features:

• Easy Internationalization
• Simple plug-in mechanism for new validators, should you want to extend functionality
• Easily configurable
• No dependencies on other libraries such as JQuery, Mootools etc.

Documentation

Find more about GValidator, including the design and documentation at http://www.onegeek.com.au/articles/programming/javascript-form-validation.php

Latest Changes

Version 0.5.77

Latest stable release. Bug fixes for IE{6,7,8}.

Version 0.5.59

This release was mainly to fix a few bugs, code cleanup/refactor, and documentation frenzy (see new API Doc downloads).

Version 0.5.49

Major updates include:

• Internationalisation and translation file support added.
• Easy configuration, and form specific configuration via class names and id's
• Simple plugin file support
• Empty fields now have separate error messages
• Form level validation can be passed to a function handler via configuration
• Form level validation errors can be displayed in a container div via a configuration option
• Element level parameters added
• DEPRECATION of the following params
• ENABLE_COMPACT_MESSAGES (replace with config option eMsgFormat: 'compact')
• ICON (replaced by config options icons: {error: 'image/path', info...} )

Version 0.4.30

• Bug fix ( Issue 4 ). Generic text field did not take 'required' flag into consideration, and is now more closely related to AbstractTextField, in that it has a universal 'this.regex' predicate.

Version 0.4.25

• GValidator now resets along with a native DOM form reset.

Version 0.4.20

• Ability to set a field as required using html class 'required'.
• Ability to add multiple class names to a field without interupting GValidator.