19 November 2010, 10:57

Hi all,

I have created a new form in the files section - similar to that or the edit form. If the user forgets to populate a field I have successfully got it coming up with an error. If there are two error I would like each error to be on a line of its own, but <br> in my javascript seems to be made safe when written to the page as &lt;br&gt;. Does anyone know how to do this.

an excerpt of code is below [filebrowser.js]:

 if (!field1 || field.value == ''){
            message += '<br>'+get_string('field1isrequired');
        }
        if (message) {
            e.stop();
            replaceChildNodes(self.id + '_form_messages', makeMessage(message, 'error'));
            return false;
        }

Thanks,

Mark

23 November 2010, 8:26

Hi Mark,

In your case 'message' variable is considered as a single text node.

You need something like:

if (!field1 || field.value == ''){
            message = SPAN(message, BR(), get_string('field1isrequired'));
        }
...

23 November 2010, 11:27

Hi Rusian,

Thanks for your reply. I have tried that and get a strange error, as follows:

                setting a property that has only a getter

                 elem.style[MochiKit.Base.camelize(name)]=_42a[name];

24 November 2010, 3:32

Does the error happen at the message string I suggested? It looks like error is related to style setting. Thugh, I have just tested multiline message string I suggested and it works without errors.