Set custom HTML5 required field validation message
Required field custom validation
I have one form with many input fields. I have put html5 validations
<input type="text" name="topicName" id="topicName" required />
when I submit the form without filling this textbox it shows default message like
"Please fill out this field"
Can anyone please help me to edit this message?
I have a javascript code to edit it, but it's not working
$(document).ready(function() {
var elements = document.getElementsByName("topicName");
for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; i++) {
elements[i].oninvalid = function(e) {
e.target.setCustomValidity("");
if (!e.target.validity.valid) {
e.target.setCustomValidity("Please enter Room Topic Title");
}
};
elements[i].oninput = function(e) {
e.target.setCustomValidity("");
};
}
})
Email custom validations
I have following HTML form
<form id="myform">
<input id="email" name="email" type="email" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
Validation messages I want like.
Required field: Please Enter Email Address
Wrong Email: '[email protected]' is not a Valid Email Address. (here, entered email address displayed in textbox)
I have tried this.
function check(input) {
if(input.validity.typeMismatch){
input.setCustomValidity("'" + input.value + "' is not a Valid Email Address.");
}
else {
input.setCustomValidity("");
}
}
This function is not working properly, Do you have any other way to do this? It would be appreciated.
Code snippet
Since this answer got very much attention, here is a nice configurable snippet I came up with:
/**
* @author ComFreek <https://stackoverflow.com/users/603003/comfreek>
* @link https://stackoverflow.com/a/16069817/603003
* @license MIT 2013-2015 ComFreek
* @license[dual licensed] CC BY-SA 3.0 2013-2015 ComFreek
* You MUST retain this license header!
*/
(function (exports) {
function valOrFunction(val, ctx, args) {
if (typeof val == "function") {
return val.apply(ctx, args);
} else {
return val;
}
}
function InvalidInputHelper(input, options) {
input.setCustomValidity(valOrFunction(options.defaultText, window, [input]));
function changeOrInput() {
if (input.value == "") {
input.setCustomValidity(valOrFunction(options.emptyText, window, [input]));
} else {
input.setCustomValidity("");
}
}
function invalid() {
if (input.value == "") {
input.setCustomValidity(valOrFunction(options.emptyText, window, [input]));
} else {
input.setCustomValidity(valOrFunction(options.invalidText, window, [input]));
}
}
input.addEventListener("change", changeOrInput);
input.addEventListener("input", changeOrInput);
input.addEventListener("invalid", invalid);
}
exports.InvalidInputHelper = InvalidInputHelper;
})(window);
Usage
→ jsFiddle
<input id="email" type="email" required="required" />
InvalidInputHelper(document.getElementById("email"), {
defaultText: "Please enter an email address!",
emptyText: "Please enter an email address!",
invalidText: function (input) {
return 'The email address "' + input.value + '" is invalid!';
}
});
More details
-
defaultText
is displayed initially -
emptyText
is displayed when the input is empty (was cleared) -
invalidText
is displayed when the input is marked as invalid by the browser (for example when it's not a valid email address)
You can either assign a string or a function to each of the three properties.
If you assign a function, it can accept a reference to the input element (DOM node) and it must return a string which is then displayed as the error message.
Compatibility
Tested in:
- Chrome Canary 47.0.2
- IE 11
- Microsoft Edge (using the up-to-date version as of 28/08/2015)
- Firefox 40.0.3
- Opera 31.0
Old answer
You can see the old revision here: https://stackoverflow.com/revisions/16069817/6
You can simply achieve this using oninvalid attribute, checkout this demo code
<form>
<input type="email" pattern="[^@]*@[^@]" required oninvalid="this.setCustomValidity('Put here custom message')"/>
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
Codepen Demo: https://codepen.io/akshaykhale1992/pen/yLNvOqP