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JavaScript

Posted by Marcelo Retana
Marcelo Retana
2,534 Points

I need to use setCustomValidity() to set up my own alerts

Hi you all, I need to set up my own alerts with setCustomValidity() because I am using HTML5, I've been trying on many different ways but I know I am failing with the JavaScript logic, look at my code please and help me as much as you can.

<form role="form" method="POST" id="productForm" action="/products">
  <div class="col-sm-8 no-padding prod">
    <label>Nombre del producto/servicio</label>
   </div>
   <div class="col-sm-8 no-padding prod">
     <div class="form-group">
    <input type="text" class="form-control pro-template-input" id="prod-input-name" name="prod[name]" placeholder="Nombre" required>
       </div>
      </div>
      <div class="col-sm-4 prod no-padding">
        <input type="hidden" name="prod[productType]" id="selectedType" required>
          <div class="dropdown full-width-dropdown">
           <button  name="prod[productType]" class="btn btn-default dropdown-toggle dropdown-prod" type="button" id="type-prod" data-toggle="dropdown">
           <span>Tipo</span>
           </button>
           <ul class="dropdown-menu" role="menu" aria-labelledby="dropdownMenu1">
              <li role="presentation"><a data-value="product"   role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Producto</a></li>
              <li role="presentation"><a data-value="service" role="menuitem" tabindex="-1" href="#">Servicio</a></li>          
             </ul>
          </div>
        </div>
     <div class="row prod-clear no-padding">
      <div class="col-sm-4 prod">
        <div class="form-group prod modal-clear-spacer">
          <input type="text" class="form-control pro-template-input double" id="prod-price" name="prod[productPrice]" placeholder="Precio" required>

            </div>
          </div>
       </div>
       <div class="form-group" id="descrip-prod-add">
       <label>Descripción</label>
          <textarea class="form-control prod-textarea pro-template-input" rows="3" name="prod[productDescription]" required></textarea>
        </div>
         <!--tipo promocion-->
       <div class="form-group modal-clear-spacer">
         <label>Palabras Clave</label>
          <input type="text" class="form-control pro-template-input" id="prod-keyword" name="prod[productKeywords]"  placeholder="Palabras claves" required/>
 </div>

and here is de JavaScript:

(function(){

    var productsValidity = {
        initialize: function(){
            this.bindEvents();
        },
        bindEvents: function(){
            $('input').click(this.validateProductsInputs);
        },
        validateProductsInputs: function () {
            var inputs = $('input');
            if (!(inputs.val() === '')) {
                this.setCustomValidity('');
            }else {
                this.setCustomValidity('Debes llenar este espacio');
            };
        }
    };
    productsValidity.initialize();
})();