I built a simple contact form using foundation and its abide plugin. It's basically working, except one thing: The validation for the email input field.
- If I submit the form without entering any data, abide shows both validation error messages correctly.
- If I enter just input into the message
textareaand leave the emailinputblank, then abide prevents submitting the form, but it doesn't show the error message. It just marks the emailinputas invalid. - If I enter a valid email address and leave the message
textareablank, then abide shows both validation error messages although the email address is correct.
You can check it on jsbin: https://output.jsbin.com/cacucunama
Minimal running example (same as jsbin):
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<title>ZURB Foundation Abide form validation error</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="//cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.js"></script>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/css/foundation.min.css">
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/[email protected]/dist/js/foundation.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="#" method="get" enctype="multipart/form-data" data-abide novalidate id="footer-contact-form">
<div class="input-group">
<span class="input-group-label">N</span>
<input name="user[name]" value="" type="text" id="footer-contact-form--name" class="input-group-field"
placeholder="Name">
</div>
<div class="input-group">
<span class="input-group-label">@</span>
<input name="user[email]" value="" type="email" id="footer-contact-form--email" class="input-group-field"
placeholder="Email address*" required pattern="email">
</div>
<label class="form-error" data-form-error-for="footer-contact-form--email">Valid email required.</label>
<textarea name="user[message]" id="footer-contact-form--message" placeholder="Message*" rows="3"
required=""></textarea>
<label class="form-error" data-form-error-for="footer-contact-form--message">A message is required.</label>
<button value="" type="submit" class="button expanded">Send</button>
</form>
</body>
</html>
As already answered at https://foundation.discourse.group/t/abide-doesnt-show-the-correct-validation-error-message/2276/10 you forgot to wrap the label + input pars in the part with the email input and message textarea.
https://codepen.io/DanielRuf/pen/dyYpjYZ
It works with the following code: