Could be, Josh... I've gone back-and-forth between onblur and onkeyup. The only consideration is that with onkeyup the user's attention is still on that field, whereas with onblur, the user's attention has gone on to the next field even before the tab takes place.
I think it's so close it probably really doesn't matter. Different users would prefer different interaction anyway. Thanks for the suggestion and perspective! Rick > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Josh Nathanson > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2007 2:55 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [jQuery] Re: Which Validation Verison with jQuery 1.2.1? > > > > Thats supposed to be a feature. The assumption: Its very annoying if > the > > validation starts whining about invalid fields before the user even > had > > the chance to enter a correct value. As long as a field isn't marked > as > > invalid (eg. before first submit or blur with a non-empty invalid > field), > > no onkeyup validation happens. > > Given this information, Rick, it sounds like you want "onblur" rather > than > "onkeyup". This will wait until the user tabs or clicks to the next > field > before checking if the field is valid or not. > > -- Josh
