form.yiiActiveForm('validate') cant validate without also submitting form

[Nate Sanden]

Can't see how to do client side validation on a form without actually submitting the form.

with

form.data('yiiActiveForm').submitting = true;

it causes form to submit. can't seem to stop it.

without

form.data('yiiActiveForm').submitting = true;

it causes the form to not validate. even with:

form.yiiActiveForm('validate')

[Carsten Brandt]

so you want to force the same validation that would be performed on form submit? This would rather be a feature request than an issue for this book because it is not possible as far as I see.
What is your use case for this?

[Nate Sanden]

Yes. Use case is this:
User fills in form, if validation is successful, instead of submitting form, I want to run some javascript to

1. save form details in user session - probably an ajax request
2. popup a bootstrap modal to let the user login via authclient authwidget
3. after user logs in, i'll do stuff with session form details

[Carsten Brandt]

please open this as a feature request on the repo then. it is currently not supported as far as I see.

[Nate Sanden]

roger that thanks cebe