Comments on: Support the jQuery Validation Plugin

By: John Reilly

John Reilly — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 07:33:42 +0000

Thanks for replying Jörn. It’s good to know you’re aware of jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js. I guess I just wanted to know that this was something that was on your radar.

You don’t happen to know who “owns” jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js do you? I’ve looked around and whilst I can find plenty of people using it I can’t seem to find someone to whom you might report problems / make suggestions…

By: Jörn

Jörn — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 12:29:59 +0000

@John: It may not be obvious from the blog post, but their solution builds on top of this plugin. In later iterations, they've actually removed some more of their own glue code (the blog post is from 2010). So from that perspective, there's not really anything to adopt. The latest release, 1.10.0, added a feature for specifying messages with data-msg attributes.

By: John Reilly

John Reilly — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 11:44:24 +0000

Hi Jörn,

I’m really pleased to hear about the plans for the jQuery Validation Plugin. I originally started using the jQuery Validation Plugin on an ASP.NET MVC project in conjunction with jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js and I’ve found it invaluable on my last couple of projects.

I believe that jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js is created by Microsoft
( http://bradwilson.typepad.com/blog/2010/10/mvc3-unobtrusive-validation.html ) but I’ve found not masses of information out there about it.

I was wondering if this was a development that has your blessing? I do hope so!

And also I was curious as to whether this might actually become part of the jQuery Validation Plugin in the longer term? After all, the unobtrusive aspect of this is essentially server technology agnostic. It just so happens that it’s ASP.NET MVC in my case. It could be anything on the server generating HTML with the relevant data-val-* attributes. I would imagine that this would be something that would be welcomed by developers who use other server technologies. And the more the merrier in my opinion!