Pliant – Flexible and Extensible jQuery Validation Plugin

Pliant is a jQuery validation plugin that allows easy extending/overriding of rules, as well as defining field validation by html comments.

Features

• Central, or field specific rule definitions.
• Rule inheritance and property overriding.
• Validation on field change.
• Field/Rule validation chaining.
• Apply validation on init, after init, or via HTML comments.
• Control field/rule message locations globally, or per field/rule instance.
• Control the form validation trigger, and scope.
• Stop validation on first invalid rule per field, or validate all rules per field.
• Ignore hidden/disabled fields.
• Customize element type and CSS for fields, messages, message containers, and message wrappers.
• Define expected return value for individual rules.
• Multiple event handlers allowed for field validation/focus/added, and form validation.
• Control field validation on change globally, or per field/rule based on a bool or function result.

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