First off, there are a couple of changes in your HTML that you should make which will not only help you solve this issue, but will also make for cleaner, more valid code:
- Add a
for
attribute to all of your<label>
tags that pairs them with the input that they match (this really should always be done with labels), and - Move the
<span class="required"> *</span>
inside the label (since it really is part of the label)
The resulting code would look like this:
<fieldset>
<p>
<label for="txtBox">SOME LABEL<span class="required"> *</span></label>
</p>
<input type="text" id="txtBox">
</fieldset>
Once you've done that, what you are trying to accomplish becomes much easier:
Instead of:
ctrl.closest('fieldset').find('span.required').addClass('missing');
. . . you can use the id of the input (val.controltovalidate
) as part of a JQuery selector to find the related label directly:
var $targetLabel = $("label[for='" + val.controltovalidate +"']")
$targetLabel.find('span.required').addClass('missing');
I've used this many times to pair validations with the labels of the field that is being validated . . . quick and clean. :)
Edit: I split up the last JS piece to keep it from scrolling, but it could be one line. :)