Parsley.js - change error container

Question

I want to alter the positioning of each error message. That is display the error message in the respective <div class="errorBlock"></div>. By using the documentation's code the the error msg is displayed before the element (input) and not displayed as expected. Any ideas?

As per documentation:

errors: {
    container: function (element, isRadioOrCheckbox) {
        var $container = element.parent().find(".parsley-container");
        if ($container.length === 0) {
            $container = $("<div class='parsley-container'></div>").insertBefore(element);
        }
        return $container;
    }
}

My html code is:

INPUT

<div class="input-group date date-picker" data-date-format="dd/mm/yyyy" data-date-viewmode="years">             
  <input class="form-control dataScrap firstInput" type="text" parsley-notblank="true" parsley-required="true" parsley-error-message="You must input a birth date" readonly="readonly"/>
  <span class="input-group-btn">
   <button class="btn default" type="button"><i class="fa fa-calendar"></i></button>
  </span>
  <div class="errorBlock"></div>
</div>

CHECKBOX

<div class="checkbox-list">
    <label class="checkbox-inline">
        <input type="checkbox" parsley-group="checkboxGroup" parsley-mincheck="2"> Checkbox 1
    </label>
    <label class="checkbox-inline">
        <input type="checkbox" parsley-group="checkboxGroup"> Checkbox 2
    </label>
    <div class="errorBlock"></div>
</div>

Curet

Answer 1

You can do this by overwriting Parsley's default options. (note: I'm talking about the latest version [v2.0], which I suggest you use) You basically want to give Parsley a method that will find the .errorBlock container based on the input field. It would look something like this:

var parsleyConfig = {
    errorsContainer: function(pEle) {
        var $err = pEle.$element.siblings('.errorBlock');
        return $err;
    }
}

$('#yourFormID').parsley(parsleyConfig);

And here's a live example.

Note: using this method you can't use the parsley-validate attribute that Makrand suggests. Calling .parsley on your form does the same thing, except you can add your custom options to it. Also, you need to prefix all of your parsley attributes with data-, because they're data attributes (as of v2.0).

Cazzie

Answer 2

try this:

data-parsley-errors-container=".errorBlock"

You can check this attribute in Parsley Documentation

Susann

doesnt work here since there is <div class="errorBlock"></div> after each input element. parsley-error-container, will display all messages to the specified handler. – Curet

@andreas777 why don't you add a DIV at the top and provide a class to it to be used for parsley-error-container – Radiograph

@Radiograph thats NOT the requirement. I want each error to be displayed (separately) in a div after each input element. And I want help on how to do this as per the documentation example... >> $container = $("<div class='parsley-container'></div>").insertBefore(element); – Curet

I want this to be dynamic and use the errors:{container} and NOT the parsley-error-container attribute – Curet

"~ .my-sibling-error-container" see here css-tricks.com/child-and-sibling-selectors – Qualification

Your documentation link is broken and it's data-parsley-errors-container – Ofay

Answer 3

Parsley API has been updated. The current method is:

data-parsley-errors-container="#your-div-id"

See documentation here: http://parsleyjs.org/doc/index.html#psly-ui-for-field

Amena

Answer 4

In reference to @ahmad hussain's answer you also need to put an attribute in your form:

<form parsley-validate>

Radiograph