Thanks Karl. I will direct any ui questions to the UI group from now on. That said, I appreciate your help. :)
Kind regards, William On Sep 14, 11:04 am, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry you haven't received a response yet. Usually Jörn picks up > questions about the validate picker, but he's been traveling for the > past week. Also, datepicker questions are usually handled on the > jquery-ui google group. In any case, it looks like the the validation > message is triggered on blur of the field. I don't recall how > datepicker works, but I would sort of expect the focus to go back to > the date input element when a date is selected from the datepicker. > Since that isn't happening now, you can make it happen by adding an > onClose or onSelect method to your datepicker > options:http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/#event-onSelect > That way, the validation thing will be triggered when the user > clicks or tabs out of the field after that point. > > Hope that helps. > > --Karl > > ____________ > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com > > On Sep 13, 2009, at 6:45 PM, Williamk wrote: > > > > > > > Was it something I said? Or didn't say? > > :/ > > > On Sep 8, 8:28 am, Williamk <bkopl...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Oh, I put the demo page for the remember the milk with the datepicker > >> on a site, so you can see what I am talking about. > >> No porn or viagra or Nigerian cons or anything else dubious. > >> If you are interested:http://avianflew.com/milk/ > > >> On Sep 7, 9:48 pm, Williamk <bkopl...@gmail.com> wrote: > > >>> For some reason, and this is baffling me, if I use both the > >>> validation > >>> plugin and the datepicker plugin, some voodoo is occurring. > >>> I have to select the date twice for it to validate. > >>> For example, here are the steps I took: > >>> I try to submit the form without dates in the fields. > >>> The form is not sent and the date fields are flagged. > >>> If you open it once and select a date, the calendar closes, but it > >>> still shows as invalid. > >>> If you repeat this action, selecting the same exact field and > >>> opening > >>> the calendar and selecting the date again, then it shows as valid. > >>> I'm not sure how to shoehorn this into validating on the first click > >>> on the calendar. > >>> And to be honest, I'm terrified I'm going to get flamed over this. > >>> I generally consider myself pretty resourceful, but this is making > >>> me > >>> a little bit loco.
