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best validation library for JavaScript. zero dependencies.

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Scalable, well tested code base

👍 Completely rewritten in ES6.
👍 Type safety. Entire codebase is written in TypeScript.
👍 High code quality via popular analysis tools such as TSLint.
👍 Zero dependencies. No jQuery.

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👌 All validators, algorithms, and APIs are tested carefully with +400 Mocha unit tests.
👌 Cover hundreds of end-to-end test cases against Selenium server with Nightwatch.js framework.

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Rich set of validators

👍 Provide a rich set of validators to cover most various types of form field.
👍 Develop and reuse your own validator easily.
👍 Support sync and async validators.

50 built-in validators and still counting. Here are some of them:

callback

Check if the input value passes a callback method

creditCard

Validate a credit card number

date

Validate a date

promise

Use a Promise to validate value

remote

Perform remote checking via Ajax request

iban

Validate an International Bank Account Number

Validate an identification number

phone

Validate a phone number

vat

Validate a VAT number

All validators can be used independently. Inspried by functional programming paradigm, all built in validators are just functions. So you can use it in browser or with ES6 module, server side frameworks such as Express:

Plugin architecture

The giant and old jQuery plugin doesn't exist anymore. With the new plugin based architectue, the library has really small core. Everything else is built around as a plugin.

35 plugins and still counting. Here are some of them:

Declarative

Declaring validator options via HTML attributes

MandatoryIcon

Show required icons for mandatory fields

Recaptcha

Show and validate a Google reCAPTCHA v2

StartEndDate

Validate start and end dates

Transformer

Modify the field value before doing validation

Wizard

Support validating multiple steps form

Friendly UX

👍 Can it notify user while field is being validated?
👍 Can it stop performing remaining validators if there is a validator that the field does not pass?
👍 Can it perform the validation only when the field value exceed a given number of characters?
👍 Can it postpone the validation for a given number of seconds from the moment user stops fill in the field?

Yes! FormValidation provides a built in mechanism to support these requirements.

Customizable

You can adjust almost everything:

👌 The error icon position
👌 The location of error message
👌 Their colors when the field is valid or invalid

Flexible

👌 Support dynamic field
👌 The validator can be enabled or disabled on the fly
👌 Provide a lot of events that you can hook on

Localizable

The default error messages of built-in validators are available in 39 language packages. There is also a plugin to support switching between different locales easily.

Support any form, CSS framework

FormValidation is designed to support validating any form that uses or doesn't use with CSS framework. In addition to that, the library provides many built-in plugins which you can plug to use with popular CSS frameworks:

and more landing soon.

Compatible with JavaScript frameworks

FormValidation can be used with popular JavaScript frameworks such as React, Preact, Vue, Svelte, etc.

Integrate with UI libraries

FormValidation plays nicely with other libraries. It has useful APIs to integrate with another libraries.

By using the same principle, you can easily integrate it with any UI library out there. To name a few:

Auto complete

👉 autoComplete.js
👉 Typeahead

Color pickers

👉 pickr

Date pickers

👉 Bootstrap Datepicker
👉 flatpickr
👉 pickadate
👉 Pikaday

Editors

👉 CKEditor
👉 Summernote
👉 TinyMCE

Tags input

👉 Choices
👉 Chosen
👉 Select2
👉 Selectize
👉 tagify

Supported browsers

FormValidation works with the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and Edge. Internet Explorer 11 is supported as well.

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