PaulZi Form

JavaScript form helpers.

This package is out of date. Further development of the package for modern browsers is in form-plus.

Demo: https://paulzi.ru/misc/github/paulzi-form/v3/

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v2.x

Install

Install via NPM

npm install paulzi-form

Install via Bower

bower install paulzi-form

Or install manually.

Include library on page after jQuery. Select standalone or separate method:

standalone (build-in dependencies)

<script src="/bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="/bower_components/paulzi-form/dist/paulzi-form.all.min.js"></script>

separate (external dependencies)

<script src="/bower_components/jquery/dist/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="/bower_components/form-extra-events/dist/form-extra-events.min.js"></script>
<script src="/bower_components/form-association-polyfill/dist/form-association-polyfill.min.js"></script>
<script src="/bower_components/jquery-iframe-ajax/dist/jquery-iframe-ajax.min.js"></script>
<script src="/bower_components/paulzi-form/dist/paulzi-form.min.js"></script>

Features

Form extra events

It provides extra events for forms: submitlast, submitbefore, submitstart, submitend.

Additionally, you can specify the attribute data-catch-download to submit button, to override form attribute on send.

See more: paulzi/form-extra-events

HTML5 form attributes polyfill

It provides polyfill for html5 attributes form, formaction, formmethod, formenctype, formtarget.

See more: paulzi/form-association-polyfill

Do not send empty fields

Set the attribute data-submit-empty="false" on the field, form or other closest node to do not submit the field if it is empty.

Example:

<form action="action.php" method="post" data-submit-empty="false">
    Price: <input type="text" name="price1" value=""> - <input type="text" name="price2" value=""><br>
    <fieldset data-submit-empty="true">
        <legend>Colors</legend>
        <input type="hidden" name="colors" value="">
        <input type="checkbox" name="colors[]" value="1"> black
        <input type="checkbox" name="colors[]" value="2"> red
    </fieldset>
    <button type="submit">Filter</button>
</form>

Lock re-submit the form

By default, all forms are protected from re-sending, as long as the request is complete. You can disable this default behavior in the global options (see below).

You can also specify attribute data-lock for a specific form:

<form action="action.php" method="post" data-lock="false">
    Your name: <input type="text" name="name" value="">
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

Displays submitting status of forms

By default, during the process of submitting, in form adding the class form-loading. Similarly, adding the class btn-loading to the button by means of which this form is sent (default is the first submit button).

In addition, you can specify the attributes data-loading-text and data-loading-icon for a submit button. Then in during submission, button content will be replaced with the following template:

<button><i class="<%= icon %>"></i><%= text %></button>

You can change the template in the global options (see below).

Example:

<!-- font awesome -->
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-loading" data-loading-text="Submitting..." data-loading-icon="fa fa-refresh fa-spin">Submit</button>

<!-- bootstrap glyph -->
<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary btn-loading" data-loading-text="Submitting..." data-loading-icon="glyphicon glyphicon-refresh">Submit</button>

Sending form via AJAX

It provides the ability to send the form via AJAX, including forms with files.

When submitting a form with input[type="file"] used XMLHttpRequest 2 or iframe for older browsers. Details of submitting by the iframe, see paulzi/jquery-iframe-ajax.

AJAX request is full equivalent default submit request, with support html5 form attributes, input[type="image"] submit button and files.

To send a form via AJAX, add an attribute data-via="ajax" to the form:

<form action="action.php" method="post" data-via="ajax">
    Your name: <input type="text" name="name" value="">
    <button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

When sending via Ajax are additional events:

• submitajax - triggered before sending form via ajax, you can cancel submitting by preventDefault();
• submitbefore, submitstart, submitend (data, jqXHR) - also available, as well as in extra events, but the property transport of event equal to 'ajax';
• submitdone (data, jqXHR, error) - triggered when get a successful response;
• submitfail (data, jqXHR, error) - triggered when get a error response;
• uploadprogress - triggered during uploading form data;
• downloadprogress - triggered during downloading response;
• uploadend - triggered after end uploading part of request and start download response;

Events uploadprogress, downloadprogress, uploadend available only in browser with support XMLHttpRequest 2. In the event object are available properties loaded, total, lengthComputable.

Example:

<form id="avatar-form" action="action.php" method="post" enctype="multipart/form-data" data-via="ajax">
    Avatar: <input type="file" name="file">
    <button type="submit">Upload</button>
</form>
<script>
$(document).on('submitstart', '#avatar-form', function () {
    $(this).find('button').html('Uploading...');
});
$(document).on('uploadprogress', '#avatar-form', function (e) {
    if (e.lengthComputable) {
        $(this).find('button').html(Math.round(100 * e.loaded / e.total) + '%');
    }
});
$(document).on('submitend', '#avatar-form', function () {
    $(this).find('button').html('Upload');
});
</script>

Scenarios

Set the attribute data-via on the submit button to override the dispatch method specified in the form.

Set the attribute data-via in input fields, or closest nodes in order to determine in what method you want to submit these fields.

Example:

<form action="action.php" method="post">
    Your name: <input type="text" name="name" value=""><br>
    Export name: <input type="text" name="export_name" value="" data-via="default"><br>
    <fieldset data-via="default">
        <legend>Export settings</legend>
        <input type="checkbox" name="compress" value="1"> compress
    </fieldset>
    <button type="submit" data-via="ajax">Save</button>
    <button type="submit" data-via="default" formaction="save.php">Export</button>
</form>

AJAX response handling

If the X-Redirect was set in the response headers, the library will follow browser to the specified url.

If the Content-Type is text/html, each html node in response will be processed as follows:

• get value of attribute data-insert-to (default: output) in element or in form - it is selector to search for the output element;
• get value of attribute data-insert-context (default: this) in element or in form - it is search context;
• get value of attribute data-insert-method (default: html) in element or in form - it is insert function (defined as $.fn.functionname).

Context can have the following values:

• this - run the following code: $form.search(selector).method(element);
• document - run the following code: $(selector).method(element);
• other values - run the following code: $form.closest(context).find(selector).method(element).

Example form:

<div class="cart-amount">0</div>
<div class="product-card">
    <form action="cart.php" method="post" data-via="ajax">
        <input type="text" name="amount" value="1">
        <button type="submit">Add to cart</button>
        <output></output>
    </form>
</div>

Response example:

<div class="cart-amount" data-insert-to=".cart-amount" data-insert-context="document" data-insert-mode="replaceWith">0</div>
<button type="submit" data-insert-to="button" data-insert-mode="replaceWith">Added to cart</button>
<div class="alert alert-success">Product added in cart!</div>

For new content generated by the following events:

• contentprepare - triggered before insert an element into the DOM (event target is form);
• contentinit - triggered after insert an element into the DOM (event target is form).

You can initialize all JavaScript components on page load or AJAX loaded content. Simple use:

$(function () {
    $(document).trigger('contentinit', [$(document)]);
});
$(document).on('contentinit', function (e, $elements, operation, $target) {
    $elements.find('.datepicker').datepicker();
});

You can cancel this behavior by preventDefault() in submitend event.

Global options

You can change the settings by changing the properties of the global object window.PaulZiForm (at any time, both before and after the include of the script).

Example:

window.PaulZiForm = $.extend(true, window.PaulZiForm || {}, {
    classes: {
        formLoading: 'my-form-class'
    },
    attributes: {
        lock: 'data-may-attribute'
    }
});

Options:

• classes (plain object) - a list of classes overrides
  • formLoading (string) default: 'form-loading' - class for form submission state
  • btnLoading (string) default: 'btn-loading' - class for submit button in submission state
• attributes (plain object) - a list of attributes names overrides
  • via (string) default: 'data-via' - form submitting method attribute name
  • lock (string) default: 'data-lock' - form second submitting lock attribute name
  • submitEmpty (string) default: 'data-submit-empty' - do not submit empty field attribute name
  • to (string) default: 'data-insert-to' - ajax response handling target attribute name
  • context (string) default: 'data-insert-context' - ajax response handling context attribute name
  • mode (string) default: 'data-insert-mode' - ajax response handling mode attribute name
  • params (string) default: 'data-insert-param' - ajax response handling mode params
  • loadingText (string) default: 'data-loading-text' - set text of submitting state button attribute name
  • loadingIcon (string) default: 'data-loading-icon' - set icon of submitting state button attribute name
• defaults (plain object) - a list of default values
  • lock (bool) default: true - lock second submitting in all form by default
  • submitEmpty (bool) default: true - submit empty fields in all form by default
  • to (string) default: 'output' - ajax response handling default target
  • context (string) default: 'this' - ajax response handling default context
  • mode (string) default: 'html' - ajax response handling default mode
  • params (string) default: 'true' - ajax response handling default mode params
  • skipOnError (bool) default: false - ajax response handling skip by error
• buttonLoadingTemplate (function) - template of submitting button state (more see below)
• defaultTemplate (function) - store default function for template (you can re-use)
• buttonLoadingForce (bool) default: false - force using a template, even if the attributes data-loading-text and data-loading-icon are not set

buttonLoadingTemplate in function pass plain object with data:

• form - form element;
• btn - button element;
• text - content of data-loading-text attribute;
• icon - content of data-loading-icon attribute.

Function must return string (html), jQuery object or false (do not apply template).

Custom build

Install Grunt, comment in Grunt.js out unnecessary src/* files, and run grunt command.

Requirements

• jQuery 1.7+
• form-extra-events (build-in in standalone version)
• form-association-polyfill (build-in in standalone version)
• jquery-iframe-ajax (build-in in standalone version)

Browser support

Tested with browsers:

• Internet Explorer 7+
• Chrome 7+
• Firefox 3+
• Opera 15+
• Safari 5+
• Android Browser 2.2+
• iOS Safari ?