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Combo-field validation reports missing required subfields individually when some values are present. When all required subfields are empty, PHP and JavaScript validation use a field-level blank error. Error handling also supports combo subfields in repeating sections and custom field messages.
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Combo field validation
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Summary
Subfield labels and server validation classes/controllers/FrmComboFieldsController.php, classes/controllers/FrmFieldsController.php, classes/helpers/FrmFieldsHelper.php, classes/models/fields/FrmFieldCombo.php, tests/phpunit/fields/test_FrmFieldAddress.php, tests/phpunit/fields/test_FrmFieldName.php
Combo-field inputs receive subfield names and labels. Required validation returns labeled errors for missing required subfields when some values are present, and one field-level blank error when all required subfields are empty. Tests cover address and name fields.
Browser validation and error rendering js/formidable.js, css/_single_theme.css.php
JavaScript validates required combo subfields together, groups errors when all are empty, and supports field-level and subfield error rendering. CSS restores normal styling for non-blank subfields.
AJAX error handling recognizes combo subfield IDs and includes the subfield name in custom error keys. Error rendering can resolve combo subfield containers in repeating sections.
sequenceDiagram
participant Form
participant validateForm
participant validateField
participant addFieldError
Form->>validateForm: Start form validation
validateForm->>validateField: Validate combo subfields
validateField->>addFieldError: Render field-level or subfield errors
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The change improves required-subfield error messages and preserves unrelated validation errors. No actionable merge-blocking risk remains; merge after normal checks.
Security Architecture Review
Security architecture risk:🟡 Moderate · up to 5164e
Required-field enforcement appears preserved, but configurable subfield descriptions now enter an HTML-rendered error path with different filtering from their normal display. Saved-value sanitization and author permissions need confirmation. Compatibility with the companion Pro and translation changes also remains unverified.
Retained concerns
Medium · security · inferred: Subfield descriptions acquire a potentially less-filtered HTML rendering path when reused as error labels. Their normal display always applies wp_kses_post, but the new error-message path only filters names when a site-wide policy requires it. If a description writer lacks executable-HTML authority and write-time sanitization does not remove active content, validation errors could expose stored content to browser execution. The relevant write-time controls and translation-writer authority remain unresolved; exploitability is not verified.
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Security Blast Radius
inferred — The unresolved HTML exposure requires control of stored subfield descriptions or integration-supplied labels; public submission values are not the new label source. If executable content survives storage and filtering, affected form users could receive it through same-origin browser error rendering. No public-submission-only injection path was established.
Security Findings and Attack Paths
inferred — The potential path is configured description to subfield label to validation message to browser HTML insertion. Unlike the pre-existing description display, this path does not unconditionally apply wp_kses_post. Whether this becomes an exploitable authority escalation depends on write-time sanitization and description-writer privileges, which were not resolved.
Trust Boundaries and Controls
observed — Field creation requires form-edit permission and an AJAX nonce, and filters submitted field options with wp_kses_post. Existing custom HTML has separate unfiltered-HTML controls. These are meaningful countercontrols, but do not establish sanitization for every description update, import, or translation path.
Resilience and Maintainability Implications
observed — Required combo validation still returns errors for missing non-optional values in both wholly empty and partially completed states. Browser cleanup does not change the AJAX controller's validation-before-processing ordering, so presentation cleanup alone does not authorize acceptance of incomplete submissions.
Hardening Proposals
proposed — Give description-derived error labels an explicit non-executable-content contract, consistent with their normal description rendering, while keeping intentional custom error HTML under its separate authority policy.
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In `@js/formidable.js`:
- Around line 470-521: Update validateComboField so partial required-field
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repeater field key from getFieldId(input, true). Preserve the outer field key
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Two files inconsistent with production behavior plus two functional bugs, all traced through the new combo-field (Name/Address) sub-field validation path — requesting changes.
Blocking
js/formidable.min.js was never regenerated (npm run minimize). Confirmed: grep -c "maybeCombineComboFieldErrors\|validateComboField" js/formidable.min.js returns 0, and the file's last commit predates this PR's by 3 days. Per this repo's own documented pattern (FrmAppHelper::save_combined_js() builds the real front-end bundle from formidable.min.js, not formidable.js, and FrmAppHelper::js_suffix() returns .min whenever SCRIPT_DEBUG is off — i.e. virtually every production site), none of this PR's JS validation changes take effect anywhere in production until the minified build is committed alongside the source, same as the precedent on formidable-forms#3408.
Real-time (blur) validation regression once a combo field moves from "all blank" to "some sub-fields blank" — see inline comment on validateField().
Repeater key collision in the partial-fill JS validation path — see inline comment on validateComboField/getFieldId.
Also worth fixing (non-blocking)
AJAX submit path: a sub-field error key like field12-first isn't numeric, so FrmEntriesAJAXSubmitController::maybe_modify_ajax_error() (classes/controllers/FrmEntriesAJAXSubmitController.php:174) skips applying a site's custom [if error] HTML wrapper for the new per-sub-field errors, while the "all blank" combined error still gets it — inconsistent branded error styling between the two states, AJAX-submitted forms only.
CSS coverage gap and description-as-grammatical-subject issue — see inline comments.
Minor reuse/simplification, not blocking: getComboFieldRequiredMessage re-derives a key that getFieldContainerErrorKey (defined earlier in this same diff) already computes; maybeCombineComboFieldErrors re-runs checkRequiredField/the sub-input DOM query its callers already ran; the "clone field, override name, call get_error_msg" pattern is duplicated between FrmFieldCombo::get_sub_field_error_msg() and FrmFieldsController::add_validation_messages().
CI: shard 1's Cypress failure (Form Templates/FormTemplates.cy.js, an <svg> visibility timeout in the templates modal, not the combo/name/address specs) looks unrelated to this diff's scope — not treated as blocking, flagging since CI is red.
Security: no new escaping/injection surface — sub-field labels/descriptions are admin-authored strings, run through the same esc_attr()/esc_html() calls as existing surrounding code.
Verification scope: not live-rendered in a browser for this pass. Both blocking JS bugs were established by deterministic source tracing (exact DOM class/key derivation across js/formidable.js, FrmFieldFormHtml.php, and the address/name field templates), not by observing rendered behavior, and the conclusion holds regardless of render — but recommend the author re-verify live after fixing both and rebuilding the minified JS. Ran the PR's own new PHPUnit tests (test_FrmFieldAddress.php/test_FrmFieldName.php) mentally against the diff's PHP logic (CI already ran them green); did not additionally execute the Cypress suite locally.
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Once a combo field (Name/Address) moves from the "all blank" state into the "some sub-fields blank" state, blurring a still-empty required sub-field silently clears its error instead of keeping it flagged.
Trace: for a sub-field input, fieldContainer = field.closest('.frm_form_field') (line 326) resolves to the sub-field's own inner row div — classes/views/frm-fields/front-end/address-field/address-field.php renders each sub-field as class="frm_form_field form-field frm_form_subfield-{name} ...", which is a closer ancestor than the outer combo wrapper. That inner div never carries frm_required_field — only the outer combo wrapper gets that class, from FrmFieldFormHtml.php:364.
In the "some blank" state, comboFieldHasFieldError(comboContainer) (line 336) checks the outer wrapper for frm_blank_field + a direct-child .frm_error, and returns false — the outer wrapper only gets frm_blank_field when all required sub-fields are empty (FrmFieldCombo::validate()'s new branching only sets errors['field'.id] in that case, and FrmFieldFormHtml.php:544 keys frm_blank_field off exactly that key). So execution falls through past the combo branch to the plain hasClass(fieldContainer, 'frm_required_field') check on line 338 — false for the sub-field's own div — leaving errors empty, and removeFieldError(fieldContainer) on line 352 runs unconditionally, wiping the still-blank sub-field's error indicator.
Reachable without a repeater: a required Name field, First blank + Last filled (JS validation on), click into First, leave it blank, blur.
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Fixed. comboFieldHasFieldError() now also checks whether any individual sub field container still carries frm_blank_field (not just the outer combo wrapper), so re-blurring a still-empty sub field after another one gets filled keeps its error instead of silently clearing it. Verified with a jsdom harness reproducing your exact repro (First blank + Last filled, blur First again) — red against master, green against this fix.
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In a repeating section, getFieldId(input, true) collapses to the same key for every sub-field of one combo field. The repeater branch (~line 87-91) rewrites fieldId to the combo field's own numeric id, and the fullID block (~line 104-111) only appends nameParts[0]/nameParts[1] (the repeating-section id + row) — for a sub-field name like item_meta[repeatingId][row][fieldId][subfieldName], the sub-field-name segment (nameParts[3]) never makes it into the key. Outside a repeater the same function does include the sub-field name (the fieldId === nameParts[0] branch), so this only breaks inside repeating sections.
maybeCombineComboFieldErrors's "all empty" branch already accounts for this (the comment right above it acknowledges the collision and intentionally folds it into one message), but this line — the per-sub-field path used when only some sub-fields are empty — needs the key to be unique per sub-field. When two sub-fields of the same repeater row are both empty, the second checkRequiredField call overwrites the first's entry under the identical key, and the one surviving error then gets placed on whichever container matches that shared key, losing one sub-field's error and mislabeling its location.
Matches CodeRabbit's own review comment on this PR and the auto-generated "Merge Risk" note ("Users editing a partially filled combo in a repeater may see an error on the whole field instead of the missing subfield") — independently confirmed here via the key-derivation trace above, not just taken on CodeRabbit's word.
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Fixed. getFieldId()'s repeater branch now appends the sub field's own data-sub-field-name to the key, so two sub fields of the same combo field inside a repeating row no longer collapse to the same key. Also reworked validateComboField's error-routing to resolve each sub field's real container straight from its input (via getRequiredComboSubInputs) instead of an id lookup, since a sub field container's id isn't guaranteed unique across repeater rows either. Verified with a jsdom harness: two sub fields in one repeater row now get distinct keys, and filling+blurring one no longer drops or mislabels the other's error — red against master, green against this fix.
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This override only clears input/select. The base error-styling rule it's countering (a few lines up) also targets textarea, .mce-edit-area iframe (Pro rich text), .frm-g-recaptcha/.g-recaptcha iframe, .frm-card-element.StripeElement, and — when $use_chosen_js is on — .chosen-container-multi .chosen-choices / .chosen-container-single .chosen-single.
An Address field's state/country dropdown becomes a .chosen-container-single when chosen.js is enabled site-wide (a common setting). A filled state sub-field sitting next to a still-blank required sub-field in the same combo would keep showing error styling, since this new rule never reaches the chosen-wrapped element.
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Fixed. The override now also covers textarea, .mce-edit-area iframe (Pro), recaptcha, the Stripe card element, and the chosen.js containers (when chosen is on).
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get_sub_field_label() uses the sub-field's {name}_desc option verbatim as the grammatical subject substituted into the blank-message template ([field_name] cannot be blank.) via FrmFieldsHelper::get_error_msg(). That option is authored as the caption shown under the input, not necessarily a short noun phrase — an admin who writes an actual sentence there (e.g. "We use this to personalize your emails.") gets "We use this to personalize your emails. cannot be blank." as the live per-sub-field error.
Not a regression against the old code (which never substituted per-sub-field description text into a sentence at all), so non-blocking — but worth a fallback to the sub-field's plain label when the description doesn't read as a short phrase, or at least a doc note on the authoring convention this now assumes.
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Fixed. The description is only used when it is a short phrase (4 words or fewer, no trailing sentence punctuation); otherwise it falls back to the field + sub field label. Added a PHPUnit case. Also shared the clone-and-rename error message code between FrmFieldCombo and FrmFieldsController via FrmFieldsHelper::get_error_msg_for_name, and the AJAX [if error] wrapper now applies to keys like 12-first.
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Franky's round-1 review on this PR found two real JS bugs plus a stale
minified bundle:
- comboFieldHasFieldError() only checked the outer combo wrapper's
frm_blank_field flag, which clears as soon as one sub field gets
filled - so once a combo field moves from "all blank" to "some
blank", blurring the still-empty sub field again silently wiped its
own error instead of keeping it flagged. Now also checks for any
sub field still individually flagged blank.
- getFieldId()'s repeater branch never included the sub-field-name
segment, so every sub field of the same combo field inside a
repeating section collapsed to the same key - the second
checkRequiredField() call overwrote the first sub field's error.
Now appends the sub field's data-sub-field-name.
- Regenerated js/formidable.min.js via `npm run minimize` (confirmed
byte-for-byte reproducible against a fresh run) so the above
actually ships - js_suffix() serves the .min bundle whenever
SCRIPT_DEBUG is off.
Verified red-against-master / green-against-fix with a jsdom harness
exercising the real frmFrontForm code against both repro cases from
the review.
Addressed the two blocking JS bugs (replies on each inline thread) and regenerated js/formidable.min.js via npm run minimize — confirmed byte-for-byte reproducible by re-running the same command against the fixed source and diffing the output. Verified both fixes with a jsdom harness exercising the real frmFrontForm code against your exact repro for each (red against master, green against this push) rather than live-rendering.
Left the four non-blocking items (AJAX [if error] wrapper, CSS coverage gap, description-as-subject, reuse/simplification) out of scope for this pass — happy to pick those up separately if wanted.
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- Around line 114-116: Update addAjaxFormErrors to resolve repeater combo
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Resolve repeater combo errors from their subinputs during submission.
addAjaxFormErrors() looks up each error only with #frm_field_${key}_container. For a repeater combo subfield, getFieldId(field, true) adds the repeating row and subfield name to the error key, but the rendered subfield container does not include the row. The lookup fails and deletes the error. Since validateFormSubmit() returns the mutated error map, the submit guard can also proceed without showing the client-side error.
Resolve repeater subfield errors from their corresponding inputs, as validateComboField() already does for change validation.
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Review comment at @js/formidable.js around lines 114 - 116:
Update addAjaxFormErrors to resolve repeater combo subfield errors through their
corresponding inputs, reusing the lookup approach in validateComboField when the
error-key container lookup fails. Preserve the errors in the map when a matching
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Confirmed with a jsdom repro (Repeater-wrapped Name, partial fill: jsErrors came back empty). addAjaxFormErrors now falls back to resolving the sub field container from its input when the id lookup misses, same approach as validateComboField. Red before, green after.
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Round-1's two specific blocking bugs are addressed:
Blur regression: live-verified, not just re-read. Rebuilt the exact repro (required Name combo field, submit all-blank → fill Last → blur First while still blank) in a real browser (formidable-preview-env, this PR's branch loaded). comboFieldHasFieldError()'s new sub-field-level check correctly keeps First's own error instead of wiping it. Screenshot:
Repeater key collision: verified via source, not live-rendered (no repeater fixture set up this pass). getFieldId()'s new suffix reads a real, pre-existing data-sub-field-name attribute (combo-field.php/address-field.php, confirmed predates this PR via git log), not new markup this diff forgot to add elsewhere. Additionally checked Pro's own combo-fields/input.php (the template that actually renders inside a real repeating section, since Lite alone has no repeater UI) — it already has a $field['id'] = $args['field_id'] override mechanism (FrmProFieldsHelper.php:1500) that would make a repeated row's container id row-aware, consistent with this fix's key format. Didn't trace the full call chain that populates $args['field_id'] for a real repeated combo field, so this is plausible, not fully confirmed — see the flagged item below.
js/formidable.min.js: regenerated and committed in the same commit as the source (f7e68a64b on both), contains the new function names.
Security pass: no new escaping/injection surface — sub-field labels flow through the same esc_attr()/esc_html() calls as existing admin-authored strings.
CI: no workflow runs exist yet for this commit (f7e68a64b) as of this review — PHPUnit/PHPStan/lint haven't re-run since the fix push. The fix commit only touches js/formidable.js/formidable.min.js, so the PHP-side checks that were green on the prior commit (1b6e83e38) are unaffected by it; that same prior commit's E2E/Cypress shard was red but on an unrelated spec (Form Templates modal), already noted as not blocking in round 1. JS lint/E2E haven't specifically re-confirmed this commit — worth checking once CI catches up, not treated as blocking given the live verification above.
Approving — the specific asks from round 1 are resolved and no new blocking issue was confirmed. A broader pass (mine plus automated tooling) surfaced more items while in here; flagged inline where I could pin a line, otherwise below. None are confirmed regressions and none let invalid data through, so notes rather than blockers — but see the repeater item, which I could not fully rule out.
Worth a specific look, not fully confirmed by me:
Automated deep-trace review flagged that addAjaxFormErrors()'s DOM lookup (js/formidable.js ~2823, form.querySelector('#frm_field_${key}_container'), silently deletes the error if no match) might not find a container for the new repeater-suffixed key. My source check above (Pro's field_id override) suggests the mechanism to make this match probably exists, but I didn't trace it end-to-end. Needs a real Repeater-wrapped Name/Address field, AJAX submit, partial fill, to settle definitively.
Still open from round 1 (author already flagged these out of scope for this pass — unchanged, non-blocking): the AJAX [if error] wrapper gap for non-numeric per-sub-field keys, the CSS coverage gap for textarea/chosen.js-wrapped selects, description-as-grammatical-subject in get_sub_field_label(), and the getComboFieldRequiredMessage/maybeCombineComboFieldErrors/clone-and-override reuse notes.
Architecture note, not a blocker:getFieldContainerErrorKey(), getComboFieldRequiredMessage(), and getFieldId()'s new repeater suffix are three independent hand-rolled parsers of the same "field id ↔ combo container id ↔ sub-field key" relationship. FrmFieldCombo::get_inputs_container_attrs() already hands the client data-reqmsg directly instead of making JS reconstruct it — the same could apply to the error key itself, cutting the drift risk between all three.
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removeComboFieldErrors() hand-rolls the outer field-container cleanup (class removal, .frm_error removal, aria-invalid reset) instead of calling the existing removeFieldError( fieldContainer ) (line 1498) the way it already does for each sub-field container two lines up. That existing helper also resets aria-invalid on a role="radiogroup"/"group" ancestor for radio/checkbox fields (lines ~1512-1516) — a case this hand-rolled version doesn't cover. Not reachable today (a combo wrapper doesn't itself hold a radio/checkbox input), but it's a second copy of removeFieldError's logic that will silently drift the next time that helper gets a fix. Non-blocking, worth folding into a removeFieldError( fieldContainer ) call the next time this function is touched.
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Done. removeComboFieldErrors now calls removeFieldError on the outer container. Also folded maybeCombineComboFieldErrors onto the required errors and sub input list that validateComboField already has, instead of re-running checkRequiredField and the DOM query. getComboFieldRequiredMessage keeps its own key on purpose: it is the field html id key that custom error HTML embeds, not the numeric container key from getFieldContainerErrorKey.
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This comment ("In a repeater the sub fields share the field key, so this is replaced below") describes the collision this same PR's getFieldId() fix (the new data-sub-field-name suffix, ~line 111) already eliminates — sub-field keys inside a repeater no longer collapse to the shared field key. The code is still correct either way (this line still needs to run for the non-repeater case), but the comment will read to a future maintainer as if the repeater collision is still a live concern "replaced below," when this PR just fixed it. Non-blocking — worth a quick reword so it doesn't mislead the next reader.
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Under a custom data-error-html theme, this can produce a mismatched aria-describedby. For the combo whole-field combined error, getComboFieldRequiredMessage() builds the message via wrapErrorHtml( message, subInput, errorKey ) with errorKey = the plain field key, so the rendered custom HTML embeds that key's id (confirmed live with a real field: key d9xql → id="frm_error_field_d9xql"). But id here is computed independently via getErrorElementId( key, allInputs[0] ), and since allInputs[0] is the first sub-input (e.g. field_d9xql_first), this resolves to frm_error_field_d9xql_first instead — a different id than the one actually embedded in the HTML that gets inserted. Every required sub-input's aria-describedby then points at that second, non-existent id. Only reachable on sites using the custom-error-HTML theme feature with a fully-blank required combo field, so non-blocking, but worth fixing since it's a real (if narrow) accessibility regression — have getComboFieldRequiredMessage()'s errorKey and this id derive from the same source instead of two independent computations.
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Fixed. addFieldError now takes the id for aria-describedby from the id in the rendered error HTML when there is one, so the combined error and the per-sub-field errors both point at the element that exists. Harness covers both cases (red before, green after).
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Gating combo-aware routing on "does an error already exist" (rather than just "is this a combo field") means the very first live blur/change on a required combo field — before any error has ever appeared — falls through to the plain path and produces no inline feedback at all (confirmed live: filled+blurred, then cleared+re-blurred a previously-valid required sub-field with frm_js_validate on, no error appeared until actual submit). Not a regression — pre-PR, combo sub-fields never got live blur validation either, since their own container never carries frm_required_field (only the outer wrapper does) — but it does mean this PR's live-validation improvements only engage after a submit has already established an error once. Separately, source-level: validateComboField()'s ! addErrors && hasErrors early return (line ~515) only clears the specific sub-field container that changed, never the outer wrapper — so when js_validate is off, fixing one sub-field of a previously all-blank combo can leave the outer field's stale combined message/styling stuck until the next submit. Both non-blocking (no invalid data gets through either way, and a real submit always re-validates correctly) but worth a follow-up given this PR's whole point is subfield error UX.
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Fixed both. Required combo fields now go through the combo-aware path on the first blur/change; until an error exists only the sub field that changed is flagged, so tabbing through does not flag fields not reached yet. With JS validation off, the stale combined wrapper error is now cleared once it no longer applies, keeping flags on sub fields that still fail.
- Resolve the container for sub field errors from the input, so repeater
sub fields keep their error on AJAX submit.
- Use one key for the combined error element ID and its aria-describedby.
- Validate required combo fields on the first blur, flagging only the
changed sub field until an error exists.
- With JS validation off, clear the combined error once it no longer applies.
- Reuse removeFieldError and the sub input query/required errors already computed.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
- Apply the custom [if error] wrapper to combo sub field errors on AJAX submit.
- Cover textarea, rich text, recaptcha, Stripe and chosen.js in the sub field override.
- Fall back to the plain sub field label when the description is not a short phrase.
- Share the name-override error message helper between combo and field controller.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
The ID is computed once by the custom error HTML, so sub field and combined
errors both point at the element that is actually rendered.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Sonnet 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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- Around line 528-604: Update validateComboField’s JavaScript-validation cleanup
so it removes the changed subinput’s error and any parent whole-combo error
without clearing errors on unchanged subinputs. Preserve existing
unchanged-subinput errors, including server-side validation errors such as an
invalid ZIP.
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rg -n -C 8 'sub_fields|register_sub_fields' classes/models/fields/FrmFieldName.php classes/models/fields/FrmFieldAddress.php classes/models/fields/FrmFieldCombo.php
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Preserve invalid errors on unchanged combo subinputs.
A required address can contain a nonempty invalid US ZIP, which receives a server-side zip error. When a different valid subinput changes with JavaScript validation enabled, validateComboField finds no required errors and validates only the changed subinput. removeComboFieldErrors then removes the unchanged ZIP error, although the ZIP value remains invalid.
Update combo cleanup to remove only the changed subinput's error and any parent whole-combo error. Preserve errors on unchanged subinputs.
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Review comment at @js/formidable.js around lines 528 - 604:
Update validateComboField’s JavaScript-validation cleanup so it removes the
changed subinput’s error and any parent whole-combo error without clearing
errors on unchanged subinputs. Preserve existing unchanged-subinput errors,
including server-side validation errors such as an invalid ZIP.
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Request Changes (re-review at 7a3abd0b). One blocking regression, reproduced live; everything else I checked behaves as intended.
Blocking: editing one sub field wipes a server-side error on another one (inline on js/formidable.js). With JS validation on, a combo field in an error state re-validates all of its sub fields on the next change. removeComboFieldErrors() clears every sub field's error, then re-adds only the ones the client check recomputes. A server-only error, such as the address ZIP format error, is not recomputed, so it is silently dropped.
Live before/after (Lite preview env, address field address_type=us, js_validate=1, all other sub fields valid, ZIP zz):
Submit: ZIP flagged, This value is invalid.
Edit Line 1, press Tab, PR head (frm.min.js built from this PR): 0 errors, the ZIP error is gone while the ZIP is still zz.
Same steps with master'sformidable.min.js served as frm.min.js: the ZIP error keeps This value is invalid (DOM check, no screenshot).
The server still rejects zz on the next submit, so no bad data gets through; it is lost feedback on an existing behavior, which CodeRabbit also flagged on this head.
Checked live on this head (Lite only, no Pro; SCRIPT_DEBUG off so the minified bundle ran)
Name + Address, both required, JS validation on: submit all blank gives one field-level error per field with each sub field flagged and no repeated message. Fill Last only, Tab: the Name error becomes First Name cannot be blank. on First only . Focus and blur a still-blank First: its error stays. Fill First: Name clears; Address errors stay as they were.
Same form with JS validation off (server-rendered): fill First + City, submit: Name shows only Last Name cannot be blank.; Address shows Line 1, State/Province, Zip/Postal and Country each cannot be blank, City not flagged. Fill Last, Tab: the whole-field error is removed and First stays flagged red (aria-invalid="true") with no message text. Non-blocking: nothing explains why First is red once the message is gone.
js/formidable.min.js contains the new code (data-sub-field-name x2).
Not verified: the Repeater/AJAX key path (Pro is parked in this env and its checkout is 2 months older than this Lite head), so getFieldId()'s repeater suffix and getFieldContainerForErrorKey() are read from source only. PHPUnit not run locally (CI is green on all 4 PHP versions, Cypress shards 0-3 pass).
Still open, non-blocking: three hand-rolled parsers of the field id / sub field key relationship (getFieldContainerErrorKey, getComboFieldErrorKey, getFieldId's suffix) can drift; get_inputs_container_attrs() already hands the client data-reqmsg and could hand it the error key too.
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Fix for the blocking regression in the review: this call (and the one at line 569) removes the error on every sub field, including ones the client check does not recompute (the server's ZIP format error, any server-side custom validation error). Only remove what this pass is about to recompute or what no longer applies: the whole-field error, the changed sub field's own error, and any sub field whose key is in errors.
Add a regression test: required address, ZIP error from the server (frm_blank_field on the ZIP container), edit Line 1, assert the ZIP error is still there. Confirm it fails on this head first.
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Fixed in 5164e8d. Both call sites now go through a narrower removeComboFieldErrors(): it clears the whole-field error, the changed sub field, and sub fields whose key is in errors. One change from the snippet: removeFieldError( fieldContainer ) removes every descendant .frm_error, so it would still have wiped the ZIP error. The whole-field error is removed with :scope > only, and aria-invalid is reset only on inputs outside a sub field that still has its own error.
Checked with a jsdom harness against the real formidable.js: ZIP server error (frm_blank_field + message), edit Line 1, JS validation on and off. Both cases fail on 7a3abd0 (error element gone) and pass now. Editing the ZIP itself still clears its error, and the all-blank to filled required flow still clears fully. js/formidable.min.js regenerated (master merged in first; its only conflict was the min file).
No regression test committed: the repo has no JS unit setup, and a Cypress spec would need a server-side ZIP error fixture that I could not run here.
removeComboFieldErrors() cleared every sub field's error, so a server-only error such as the address ZIP format error was lost when another sub field was edited. Now it clears only the error for the whole field, the changed sub field, and sub fields the client check recomputes.
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Approve. Both blockers from my last review are fixed and I checked them live this time. One non-blocking inconsistency below.
Live check (preview env, Lite on this PR's head 5164e8d, then on master for the "before"; required Name field with JS validation on; Pro and Address not loaded):
Name with only First filled, then Submit. Master puts "Name cannot be blank." under Last. The PR puts "Last Name cannot be blank." there.
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Submit all empty: one "Name cannot be blank." with both inputs flagged; aria-describedby on both inputs points at that error's id.
Blur, from the blur bug I flagged: fill First only, then Last only, then both. The error moves to the empty sub field each time, and clears when both are filled. frm_blank_field and aria-invalid follow it.
Server path (JS validation class removed from the form, First filled, Submit): the error and the summary link both name the empty sub field, and only Last gets aria-invalid.
js/formidable.min.js is current: I re-ran npm run minimize's closure-compiler step on this head and the output is byte-identical to the committed file.
CI: Cypress shards 1-3 are red, each on a spec outside this diff: tokenInputDeferredInit, radioDeferredInit, and fieldsInFormBuilder-validation ("Email is invalid" assertion on a plain Text/Email/Phone form, no combo field). I could not compare against master because its E2E runs are skipped, so I am not treating these as caused by this PR. A re-run would settle it. Required PHP checks, PHPStan, Psalm and PHPUnit on all four PHP versions are green; DeepSource is the usual noise.
Non-blocking
With a customised short sub field description, the JS and server messages disagree. See the inline comment.
Not exercised live: repeating sections (needs Pro), Address (needs formidable-pro#6770), the AJAX-submit [if error] wrapper path, and the new CSS rule on a partially filled field in a styled theme. Those are source-read only.
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The JS and server messages for a sub field can differ once its description is customised. Reproduced on the preview env with a required Name field whose last_desc is set to "Last":
Server-side error and summary link: "Last cannot be blank." (uses the description, as get_sub_field_label() intends).
This line's data-reqmsg, which JS validation shows: "Last Name cannot be blank."
With the default descriptions (the same text as the sub field label) the two happen to match, so the stated goal of consistent errors holds out of the box but not after someone edits a description. Likely cause, not confirmed: the field array in $atts['field'] at this hook does not carry the *_desc options or the field name, so get_sub_field_label() falls to the sub field label only. If so, build $field_obj from the full field (or have get_sub_field_label() read the saved options) so this line gets the same string as FrmFieldCombo::get_sub_field_error_msg().
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. Focus and blur a still-blank First: its error stays. Fill First: Name clears; Address errors stay as they were.
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Related PR https://github.com/Strategy11/formidable-wpml/pull/157. Required to properly handle WPML translated subfield errors.
Requires https://github.com/Strategy11/formidable-pro/pull/6770 for Address subfield errors in Pro.
Before
When using JS validation, the same error would appear under every subfield.
When not using JS validation, one error would appear
And it would highlight line2 as invalid even though it's not required.
After
Now JS validation and non-JS validation show errors consistently.
When all fields are not filled in, a single error will appear
When some of the subfields are filled, individual subfield errors are shown, using the subfield name.
The error summary has also been updated to show specific subfield errors. Note that there is no error summary still for JS validation.
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