Mark error in form using Bootstrap

Question

I\'ve started using Bootstrap in order to achieve a nice page design without resorting to GWT (the backend is made in java)

For my login screen I copied this example

Answer 1

Bootstrap V3:

Once i was searching for laravel features then i got to know this amazing form validation. Later on, i amended glyphicon icon features. Now, it looks great.

<div class="col-md-12">
<div class="form-group has-error has-feedback">
    <input id="enter email" name="email" type="text" placeholder="Enter email" class="form-control ">
    <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove form-control-feedback"></span>       
    <span class="help-block"><p>The Email field is required.</p></span>                                        
</div>
</div>
<div class="clearfix"></div>

<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="form-group has-error has-feedback">
    <input id="account_holder_name" name="name" type="text" placeholder="Name" class="form-control ">
    <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove form-control-feedback"></span>                                            
    <span class="help-block"><p>The Name field is required.</p></span>                                        
</div>
</div>
<div class="col-md-6">
<div class="form-group has-error has-feedback">
 <input id="check_np" name="check_no" type="text" placeholder="Check no" class="form-control ">
 <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove form-control-feedback"></span>
<span class="help-block"><p>The Check No. field is required.</p></span>                                       
</div>
</div>

This is what it looks like:

Once i completed it i thought i should implement it in Codeigniter as well. So here is the Codeigniter-3 validation with Bootstrap:

Controller

function addData()
{
$this->load->library('form_validation');
$this->form_validation->set_rules('email','Email','trim|required|valid_email|max_length[128]');
if($this->form_validation->run() == FALSE)
{
//validation fails. Load your view.
$this->loadViews('Load your view','pass your data to view if any');
}
else
{  
 //validation pass. Your code here.
}
}

View

<div class="col-md-12">
<?php 
 $email_error = (form_error('email') ? 'has-error has-feedback' : '');
 if(!empty($email_error)){
 $emailData = '<span class="help-block">'.form_error('email').'</span>';
 $emailClass = $email_error;
 $emailIcon = '<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-remove form-control-feedback"></span>';
}
else{
    $emailClass = $emailIcon = $emailData = '';
 } 
 ?>
<div class="form-group <?= $emailClass ?>">
<input id="enter email" name="email" type="text" placeholder="Enter email" class="form-control ">
<?= $emailIcon ?>
<?= $emailData ?>
</div>
</div>

Output:

Answer 2

For Bootstrap v4 use:
has-danger for form-group wrapper,
form-control-danger for input to show icon (will display ✖ at the end of input),
form-control-feedback to message wrapper

Example:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.0.0-alpha.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-rwoIResjU2yc3z8GV/NPeZWAv56rSmLldC3R/AZzGRnGxQQKnKkoFVhFQhNUwEyJ" crossorigin="anonymous">


<div class="form-group has-danger">
  <input type="text" class="form-control form-control-danger">
  <div class="form-control-feedback">Not valid :(</div>
</div>

Answer 3

Can use CSS to show error message only on error.

.form-group.has-error .help-block {
    display: block;
}

.form-group .help-block {
    display: none;
}


<div class="form-group has-error">
  <label class="control-label" for="inputError">Input with error</label>
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="inputError">
  <span class="help-block">Please correct the error</span>
</div>

Answer 4

Bootstrap V3:

Official Doc Link 1
Official Doc Link 2

<div class="form-group has-success">
  <label class="control-label" for="inputSuccess">Input with success</label>
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="inputSuccess" />
  <span class="help-block">Woohoo!</span>
</div>
<div class="form-group has-warning">
  <label class="control-label" for="inputWarning">Input with warning</label>
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="inputWarning">
  <span class="help-block">Something may have gone wrong</span>
</div>
<div class="form-group has-error">
  <label class="control-label" for="inputError">Input with error</label>
  <input type="text" class="form-control" id="inputError">
  <span class="help-block">Please correct the error</span>
</div>

Answer 5

Generally showing the error near where the error occurs is best. i.e. if someone has an error with entering their email, you highlight the email input box.

This article has a couple good examples. http://uxdesign.smashingmagazine.com/2011/05/27/getting-started-with-defensive-web-design/

Also twitter bootstrap has some nice styling that helps with that (scroll down to the Validation states section) http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/base-css.html#forms

Highlighting each input box is a bit more complicated, so the easy way would be to just put an bootstrap alert at the top with details of what the user did wrong. http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/components.html#alerts

Answer 6

One can also use the following class while using bootstrap modal class (v 3.3.7) ... help-inline and help-block did not work in modal.

<span class="error text-danger">Some Errors related to something</span>

Output looks like something below: