Validates only if empty and non required

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Ryan Thrash Reply #11, 19 years, 6 months ago

How do you validate a textarea for a proper response?
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goddang Reply #12, 19 years, 6 months ago
Ok, so now I’ve tried this and I can’t get it to work. I don’t mind adding REGEXP:s or whatever. As long as I can get this to work....like NOW
Here’s the code:
```
            <select name="foo[]" size="6" multiple="multiple" eform="::0::#REGEX /^.+$/">
                <option value="1">One</option>
                <option value="2">Two</option>
                <option value="3">Three</option>
                <option value="na">n/a</option>
            </select>
```
Quote from: TobyL at Mar 23, 2007, 09:42 PM

Just tried this myself, when I add brackets to a select-name I can’t get it to validate(this is my biggest gripe with eForm, not being able to turn off validation).

I’ll look into this again and see if I can replicate the problem and find and answer to this.

As far as your gripe is concerned,... One of the aims of eForm is exactly to make sure forms are validated. And with as little effort as possible. Off course this doesn’t work always as envisaged (we have our limits too). That’s why we keep developing. And you can turn off the validation sort off,... set a rule for the select box yourself and it will overide the default generated rule. If you set the rule to #REGEX /^.+$/ for instance anything will be allowed...