Fix pro issue 6392 (Properly replace errors without error classes when submitting with AJAX) - #3339
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- Line 1257: Update removeFieldError to use querySelectorAll for the tagged
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If I try to submit a blank field, I see my custom error I added in the custom HTML section. However, when I correct the error, the original default error message goes away, but the custom error message remains. |
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Method: in-place push removeFieldError() now uses querySelectorAll + forEach to clear every [data-frm-error]-tagged element, matching removeAllErrors(), per the review comment above. Not verified live in a browser — playwright-cli is unavailable in this unattended session (known gap, fix-sop.md), and the fix has no non-browser test path since the repo has no JS unit test runner. Fix matches CodeRabbit's and the review comment's exact proposed diff; flagging for a human/interactive-session check before merge. |
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js/formidable.min.jscontains nodata-frm-errorlogic, whilejs/formidable.jsadds the marker during insertion and removes all marked elements during field revalidation. Theminimizescript generates the minified artifact used to buildfrm.min.js. Production pages that load this bundle can therefore retain custom error markup without.frm_errorclasses after revalidation.Run the repository’s minification script and commit the resulting tracked distribution artifacts.
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Thank you Garret! That should now be fixed. |
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Verified live (multi-top-level-element custom error HTML tagged and removed correctly — the reported #6392 repro via the AJAX path is genuinely fixed) and read the full diff plus the surrounding call graph. Two blocking gaps and one real-but-narrower correctness issue below; one more note that isn't blocking on its own.
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Blocking: this fix doesn't reach the server-rendered error path — #6392 can still reproduce.
insertErrorHtml()/data-frm-error only apply to errors addFieldError() inserts client-side (the AJAX-submit path). But [if error]...[/if error] blocks are also rendered directly by PHP on page load/reload (FrmFieldFormHtml::replace_error_shortcode()/add_element_id()), and never pass through this function at all.
Looked at add_element_id() (classes/models/FrmFieldFormHtml.php:261-280): it only injects an id when the error block literally contains the string class="frm_error". For exactly the scenario this PR targets — a custom field template whose [error] placeholder has no frm_error class — the server-rendered output ends up with no id, no frm_error class, and no data-frm-error (that attribute is JS-only; PHP never writes it).
Concretely: a non-AJAX submit (or any page reload with a sticky server-rendered error) on a custom-template field hits removeFieldError()'s container.querySelectorAll('.frm_error, [data-frm-error]') and finds nothing — the stale error is never removed. That's the original bug, unfixed, via a path this PR's own testing (Garret's screenshot, the AJAX repro in the thread) never exercised.
This needs the same identifying hook applied server-side — e.g. have PHP add data-frm-error (or relax add_element_id()'s class="frm_error" gate) whenever the block has neither a class nor an id — or this PR only fixes half of #6392.
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Fixed in 9a3db84 (rebased on top since, unchanged content) — added FrmFieldFormHtml::add_data_frm_error_attribute(), called from replace_error_shortcode() right before the [if error]/[/if error] markers get stripped. It tags every top-level element in the server-rendered error body with data-frm-error, the same as insertErrorHtml() does client-side, using a single-pass tag-depth scan (not a full DOM parse) so nested descendants are left untouched. Verified directly via Reflection against the exact repro body ([if error]
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| const errors = document.querySelectorAll( '.frm_form_field .frm_error, .frm_form_field [data-frm-error]' ); |
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Blocking: this selector widening exposes a pre-existing null-dereference in the loop below.
checkForErrorsAndMaybeSetFocus()'s loop (a few lines down) does element = element.previousSibling; then unconditionally reads element.nodeName.toLowerCase() with no null check. Before this PR, errors[0] could only be a .frm_error div, and in every real template that div is inserted after the input, so previousSibling was always non-null in practice.
Adding [data-frm-error] to the selector means any top-level element from a custom [if error] block can now be errors[0], regardless of position. If an admin's custom template places that block as the very first child of the field container (no preceding whitespace/element), errors[0].previousSibling is null and this throws a TypeError, breaking frm_js.focus_first_error for the whole form on submit — not just the one field.
Suggest guarding the loop (while ( element && element.previousSibling ), with a matching check before the first nodeName read) rather than relying on the pre-PR selector's implicit "error is never first" assumption, which this same PR just removed.
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Fixed in 9a3db84 — added a guard right after element = element.previousSibling; that breaks out of the loop when it hits null, before the nodeName read. Kept the do-while structure rather than restructuring the loop, so it is a minimal, easy-to-verify change. Confirmed via node --check and a manual trace of the exact scenario you described (a top-level [if error] block with no preceding sibling).
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Non-blocking, but worth a look before merge: removeElementFromInputDescribedBy(errorMessage) (called here and in removeAllErrors) builds [aria-describedby*="${el.id}"]. For the custom-HTML branch in addFieldError (jsErrors[key].includes('<div')), the inserted markup never gets an id — only the fallback single-div branch does — so el.id is '' for exactly the id-less custom errors this PR is meant to support.
Per the CSS attribute-selector spec, an empty-string substring match ([attr*=""]) matches nothing (confirmed live: document.querySelectorAll('[aria-describedby*=""]') returns 0 elements even against a node that has the attribute). So this cleanup call silently no-ops for that case — the visible error node is now correctly found and removed (that part of the fix works), but the input's aria-describedby is left pointing at an id that was never real, forever. Not a new regression (that id was already phantom pre-PR), but the PR's own docblock implies data-frm-error gives full cleanup, which isn't true for the accessibility half in this specific case.
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Left as-is — this is pre-existing (the custom-HTML branch never set an id before this PR either), and fixing it properly means deciding whether to force an id onto a site own custom error markup, which is a bigger design call than this fix. Softened insertErrorHtml()s docblock instead so it does not overclaim: it now says the data-frm-error tagging is for visible-element removal, not full aria-describedby cleanup, so the gap you found is not implied fixed. Worth a follow-up issue if you think it is worth tracking separately.
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One more, also blocking, not anchorable inline since it's a file this diff doesn't touch:
CI: red across 3 Cypress shards, ESLint, and PHP CS Fixer — checked each; none touch Live-verified the core JS-insertion-path fix myself (multi-top-level-element custom error HTML: both elements get tagged and both get removed on correction) — that part is solid. The three review comments above are what's stopping this from being a clean approve. |
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removeFieldError() only removed the first [data-frm-error] match, but insertErrorHtml() tags every top-level element in custom error markup. Multi-element custom error templates left stale error content visible after the field was corrected. Switch to querySelectorAll + forEach, matching the existing removeAllErrors() pattern. Requested by Franky/CodeRabbit review on this PR.
- Tag every top-level element in the server-rendered [if error] block with data-frm-error, mirroring insertErrorHtml()'s client-side tagging, so removeFieldError()/removeAllErrors() can find and clear a custom field template's error markup even when it carries no frm_error class or id (the case #6392 was filed against). - Guard checkForErrorsAndMaybeSetFocus()'s previousSibling walk against a null element, since the widened .frm_error, [data-frm-error] selector can now match a top-level element with no preceding sibling. - Hand-patch the same changes into formidable.min.js (WHITESPACE-level build, google-closure-compiler isn't runnable on this machine).
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- PHP CS Fixer's blank_line_before_statement rule needs a blank line before the nested `if` blocks in tag_top_level_elements(). - Mago's flow analysis doesn't widen $depth across loop iterations when it's mutated with --/++ and checked with > 0 / === 0 in the same loop, concluding it's always 0 and flagging the >0 branch as unreachable. Rewriting the mutations as plain assignment (`$depth = $depth - 1`) avoids the false positive; behavior is unchanged.
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Method: in-place push Rebased onto current master (force-pushed) to resolve the branch's merge conflict with the new per-form error-config/focus-summary work that landed on master since this PR opened — the data-frm-error tagging and selector widening now compose with getErrorConfigForForm() rather than replacing it. |
$depth's arithmetic assignment tripped Rector's RemoveDeadZeroAndOneOperationRector (same root cause as the earlier Mago false positive: it doesn't widen a loop-mutated int across iterations, so it rewrote `$depth + 1` to a hardcoded `1`, silently breaking the accumulation). Switching to an $open_tags array sidesteps the arithmetic entirely: array_pop()/push instead of --/++, and empty-array checks instead of comparing against a literal 0. Also fixes the PHPCS findings this shook loose: consecutive-assignment spacing, blank line after a closing brace before a statement, and the long-while closing comment. @SInCE tags corrected to x.x, matching this file's own unreleased-code convention (confirmed via getErrorConfigForForm's docblock on master).
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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win
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Tag each distinct [if error] body. get_error_body() extracts only the first body. str_replace() then tags every occurrence of that exact body, but a later non-identical body remains untagged. remove_inline_conditions() removes all error wrappers, so custom later blocks without .frm_error or data-frm-error remain visible after client revalidation. Process every matched body before removing the wrappers.
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Re-review at current head. Both prior blocking findings are fixed and verified correct by direct code read (not just trusting the linked-comment claim):
add_data_frm_error_attribute()/tag_top_level_elements()(classes/models/FrmFieldFormHtml.php) now tags server-rendered[if error]blocks the same wayinsertErrorHtml()tags client-inserted ones, closing the non-AJAX/page-reload gap.checkForErrorsAndMaybeSetFocus()'spreviousSiblingloop now has the null guard before thenodeNameread; traced the loop and the trailingwhilecondition — both are safe now.
The non-blocking aria-describedby note was left as-is with the docblock softened to stop overclaiming full cleanup (commit 1094736) — acceptable resolution, not re-opening it.
js/formidable.min.js has been regenerated and its diff content matches the formidable.js source diff line-for-line (confirmed by reading the actual minified diff, not just file presence) — the previously-flagged "ships to nobody" gap is closed.
CI: Cypress shard 1 failed, but on Form Templates/FormTemplates.cy.js (a marketing dialog/email-capture modal timing out on <svg>/#frm-leave-email-modal visibility) — unrelated to error-message markup, nothing in this diff touches that page. Treating as pre-existing flake, not counted against this PR. Every other check (PHPUnit both PHP versions, PHPCS/PHPStan/Psalm/Mago/Rector, ESLint/Oxlint/Stylelint, DeepSource/DeepScan/Scrutinizer) passes.
One new blocking finding below — the new PHP parsing logic added this round has a real bug and zero test coverage.
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Blocking: this regex breaks on an ordinary attribute value containing >, corrupting the rendered error markup.
tag_top_level_elements() treats the first unquoted-or-not > as the tag's end. A literal > inside a quoted attribute value (completely valid HTML — no escaping required there) makes it stop early. Verified directly by running this exact function standalone:
tag_top_level_elements( '<div title="a>b">[error]</div>' );
// => '<div title="a data-frm-error>b">[error]</div>'The data-frm-error attribute gets injected mid-attribute-value, truncating title to "a" and leaving b">[error] as literal trailing text — visibly broken markup for any custom error template whose top-level wrapper has an attribute containing > (an inline title, a data-* attribute with comparison-style content, etc. — not an obscure authoring pattern).
Fix: make the attrs capture skip over quoted attribute values instead of stopping at the first >:
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| while ( preg_match( '/<(\/?)([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9-]*)((?:[^">]|"[^"]*"|\'[^\']*\')*?)(\/?)>/', $html, $match, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, $offset ) ) { |
Re-ran the standalone repro with this variant: fixes the title="a>b" case and still produces identical output for the simple/multi-top-level-sibling/self-closing/existing-class-attribute cases already covered.
Also: zero test coverage for this new ~80-line function, despite a PHPUnit file dedicated to this exact class already existing (tests/phpunit/fields/test_FrmFieldFormHtml.php, currently one unrelated test method) that this PR never touched. This is exactly the kind of parsing-logic edge case a couple of targeted cases would have caught before it shipped — please add coverage for: a single top-level element, multiple top-level siblings, a nested element (descendant left untouched), and an attribute value containing >.
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Fixes https://github.com/Strategy11/formidable-pro/issues/6392
You can replicate this by going to the custom HTML for a required field, and replacing the error HTML with something like this:
Where there is no identifying class or ID on the div anymore, which is where the JS was falling short.
Now every top level element is given
data-frm-errorso we have something that doesn't change styling at all but is still identifiable as error content.Summary by CodeRabbit