Error prompt position issue with validationengine plugin (Position Absolute)

StackOverflow https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12092238

Question

I am using Position Absolute's Validation Engine for validating values on form.

The issue is that on validation, the error prompts do not appear attached to the textboxes (input type:text) as they are expected. I know that the issue is with the margin-top that I have given to the textboxes but I cannot change that. Sample code snippet is provided here...

html:

<form id="frmTest" style="position:relative">
    <div id="divContents" style="position:relative; overflow-y:auto; overflow-x:none;">
        <div class="row1">
            <span>FName:</span>
            <input id="txtFName" data-prompt-position="bottomRight" class="validate[required] text-input" tabindex="1" />
        </div>
        <div class="row2">
            <span>LName:</span>
            <input id="txtLName" class="validate[required] text-input" tabindex="2" />
        </div>
        <div class="row3">
            <span>Age:</span>
            <input id="txtAge" class="validate[required, custom[integer],min[1]] text-input" tabindex="3" />
        </div>
    </div>

        <br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />
    <input type="submit" id="btnSubmit" value="Submit" />
</form>

JS:

$('#frmTest').validationEngine();

$('#txtFName').focus();

$('#btnSubmit').click(function(){
    return $('#frmTest').validationEngine();
});

jsFiddle.

The divs that I have created are just sample but in live environment, they are collapsible divs. Also, I don't want to hard-code data-prompt-position value for each input field as there are more than 100 fields in each form. So am looking for a generic way of handling this issue (which I know is possible through CSS but don't know how?)

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Solution

I just used this code in js

$('#frmTest').validationEngine({promptPosition : "bottomRight"});

and this in css

.formError{margin-top: 15px!important;}

and it looks good. The updated fiddle is here.

I hope this helps you.

HTML

<!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>
        <title>Demo</title>
        <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
    </head>
    <body>

    <form id="frmTest" style="position:relative">
        <div id="divContents" style="position:relative; overflow-y:auto; overflow-x:none;">
            <div class="row1">
                <span>FName:</span>
                <input id="txtFName" data-prompt-position="bottomRight" class="validate[required] text-input" tabindex="1" />
            </div>
            <div class="row2">
                <span>LName:</span>
                <input id="txtLName" class="validate[required] text-input" tabindex="2" />
            </div>
            <div class="row3">
                <span>Age:</span>
                <input id="txtAge" class="validate[required, custom[integer],min[1]] text-input" tabindex="3" />
            </div>
        </div>
        <input type="submit" id="btnSubmit" value="Submit" />
    </form>
    </body>
    </html>​

CSS

body
{
    margin: 0 auto;
    font-family: Arial;
    font-size: 12px;
    line-height: 20px;
}

div.row1, div.row2, div.row3
{
    min-height: 100px;
}

span
{
    clear: both;
    float: left;
    margin-left: 10px;
    padding: 20px 5px 0 20px;
    width: 50px;
}

#txtFName, #txtLName, #txtAge
{
    margin-top: 20px;
}

input[type=text]
{
    width: 150px;
}
.formError{
    margin-top: 15px!important;
}

​JS

$('#frmTest').validationEngine({promptPosition : "bottomRight", autoPositionUpdate: true});

$('#txtFName').focus();

$('#btnSubmit').click(function(){
    return $('#frmTest').validationEngine();
});
​

Also, more documentation here.

OTHER TIPS

Open jquery.validationEngine.js

and goto 

// LEAK GLOBAL OPTIONS
    $.validationEngine = {
        fieldIdCounter: 0, defaults: {
// topRight, bottomLeft, centerRight, bottomRight, inline
promptPosition: "topLeft",

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