Show form default Validation Status Programmatically

Question

I want to submit a form using ajax. So I am not using the type=submit. I am using a onClick event on a link() to send the for

Answer 1

We have exactly the same problem and we tried very different things and a lot of them were hacks like pseudo submits and event.preventDefault() approaches. All in all i must say that HTML5 validation is nice in general but really bad in practice because its not possible to display backend validation errors the same way as frontend validation errors.

And only god knows why the HTML5 folks didnt thought about a simple API where we can trigger the validation like this element.triggerValidationMessage('my message');