README.md

BootstrapValidator - v0.4.5

http://bootstrapvalidator.com - The best jQuery plugin to validate form fields. Designed to use with Bootstrap 3

Help the project

I've been spending a lot of time to work on this plugin. If it is useful to you, please consider to help the project by making a small donation:

Also, you can make me feel happy by tweeting about it and staring the project on Github.

Live demo

http://bootstrapvalidator.com/examples/

There are also many examples located in the demo directory.

Next v0.5.0

v0.5.0 is coming soon with the following highlights (all v0.5.0 features, if you care about)

• Add events for form (#121), field (#195), and given validator (#324)
• #125: Support dynamic fields
• #175: Possible to show errors in tooltip or popover
• #385: Support translating error messages in other languages
• #387: Provide the default error messages

Please help me by downloading the latest code and testing the v0.5.0 issues.

Features

Code

• Written from scratch
• Very solid and clean
• The core plugin and validators code are separated

Bootstrap

• Designed to use with Bootstrap 3
• Support almost all Bootstrap forms
• Support Bootstrap form validation states

HTML 5

• Support setting the plugin, validator options via HTML 5 attributes prefixed with data-bv-
• Support HTML 5 attributes such as min, max, pattern, required
• Support HTML 5 input types such as color, email, range and url

Validator

• 46 built-in validators and counting!
• Easy to write a new validator

Friendly

• Show feedback icons based on field validity
• Support Glyphicons and FontAwesome icons
• Focus on the first invalid field
• Don't validate the field if the field length is less than given number using threshold option

Ajax

• Support validating via Ajax
• Support using Ajax for form submission

Flexible

• The elements can be defined by either name or CSS selector
• Support multiple elements with the same name
• Possible to indicate excluded fields
• Field validators can be enabled/disabled on the fly

Compatibility

• We play nice with popular plugins such as
  • Bootstrap Button
  • Bootstrap Color Picker as seen in hexColor validator example
  • Bootstrap Datetime Picker as seen in date validator example
  • Bootstrap Multiselect
  • Chosen
  • iCheck
  • Mask
  • Raty

Required

• jQuery
• Bootstrap 3

Download

Latest version: v0.4.5, released on 2014-05-15.

For older versions, look at the Releases page.

Documentation

• Official website
• Official website source

Release History

Look at the Change Log

Author

The BootstrapValidator plugin is written by Nguyen Huu Phuoc, aka @nghuuphuoc

• http://twitter.com/nghuuphuoc
• http://github.com/nghuuphuoc

Big thanks to the contributors:

• @aca02djr
• @adgrafik
• @alavers
• @easonhan007
• @emilchristensen
• @ericnakagawa
• @evilchili
• @Francismori7
• @gercheq
• @henningda
• @ikanedo
• @iplus
• @jcnmulio
• @jjshoe
• @johanronn77
• @jswale
• @jzhang6
• @khangvm53
• @kristian-puccio
• @lloydde
• @MartinDevillers
• @MrC0mm0n
• @mrpollo
• @narutosanjiv
• @patmoore
• @smeagol74
• @thisisclement
• @tiagofontella
• @tomByrer
• @vaz
• ... might be you! Let's fork and pull a request!

If you submit new RegEx, please build it using RegExr.com, add several tests that pass and fail there, and include the "share" link in your JS as a // comment. For example: // Test: http://regexr.com/38mqi

License

The MIT License (MIT)

Copyright (c) 2013 - 2014 Nguyen Huu Phuoc

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of
this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in
the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to
use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of
the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so,
subject to the following conditions:

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THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR
COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER
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