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Fix pro issue 6392 (Properly replace errors without error classes when submitting with AJAX) #3339

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Fix pro issue 6392
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Remove all tagged error elements during field revalidation
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Address Franky review: server-rendered errors and focus null-deref
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82 changes: 82 additions & 0 deletions classes/models/FrmFieldFormHtml.php
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Expand Up @@ -311,9 +311,91 @@ private function replace_error_shortcode() {
$this->html = str_replace( 'role="alert"', '', $this->html );
}

$this->add_data_frm_error_attribute();

FrmShortcodeHelper::remove_inline_conditions( true, 'error', $error, $this->html );
}

/**
* Tag every top-level element in the [if error] block with a data-frm-error
* attribute, so js/formidable.js's removeFieldError()/removeAllErrors() can find
* and remove it on revalidation even when a custom field template's error markup
* carries no frm_error class or id (e.g. `[if error]<div>[error]</div>[/if error]`).
* Mirrors insertErrorHtml() tagging every top-level element client-side.
*
* @since x.x
*
* @return void
*/
private function add_data_frm_error_attribute() {
$error_body = self::get_error_body( $this->html );

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

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sed -n '110,170p' classes/helpers/FrmShortcodeHelper.php
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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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In `@classes/models/FrmFieldFormHtml.php` at line 331, Update the error-body
processing in FrmFieldFormHtml so every distinct [if error] body is extracted
and tagged before remove_inline_conditions() removes the wrappers, rather than
only the first body returned by get_error_body(). Preserve tagging for repeated
identical bodies while ensuring later non-identical custom error blocks are also
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if ( ! is_string( $error_body ) || '' === trim( $error_body ) ) {
return;
}

$tagged_body = self::tag_top_level_elements( $error_body );

if ( $tagged_body === $error_body ) {
return;
}

$this->html = str_replace( '[if error]' . $error_body . '[/if error]', '[if error]' . $tagged_body . '[/if error]', $this->html );
}

/**
* Add a data-frm-error attribute to every element at the top level of an HTML
* fragment (direct children only, not nested descendants) by tracking open tags
* on a stack through a single scan, rather than a full DOM parse.
*
* @since x.x
*
* @param string $html
*
* @return string
*/
private static function tag_top_level_elements( $html ) {
$void_elements = array( 'area', 'base', 'br', 'col', 'embed', 'hr', 'img', 'input', 'link', 'meta', 'param', 'source', 'track', 'wbr' );
$open_tags = array();
$offset = 0;
$result = '';

while ( preg_match( '/<(\/?)([a-zA-Z][a-zA-Z0-9-]*)([^>]*?)(\/?)>/', $html, $match, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, $offset ) ) {

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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 ) ) {
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 >.

$full_tag = $match[0][0];
$tag_start = $match[0][1];
$is_closing = '' !== $match[1][0];
$tag_name = strtolower( $match[2][0] );
$attrs = $match[3][0];
$self_close = '' !== $match[4][0] || in_array( $tag_name, $void_elements, true );

$result .= substr( $html, $offset, $tag_start - $offset );

if ( $is_closing ) {
if ( $open_tags ) {
array_pop( $open_tags );
}

$result .= $full_tag;
} elseif ( ! $open_tags ) {
$result .= '<' . $match[2][0] . $attrs . ' data-frm-error' . ( $self_close ? ' />' : '>' );

if ( ! $self_close ) {
$open_tags[] = $tag_name;
}
} else {
$result .= $full_tag;

if ( ! $self_close ) {
$open_tags[] = $tag_name;
}
}

$offset = $tag_start + strlen( $full_tag );
}//end while

return $result . substr( $html, $offset );
}

/**
* Pull the HTML between [if error] and [/if error] shortcodes.
*
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Expand Up @@ -1192,6 +1192,26 @@ function frmFrontFormJS() {
return formEl.frmErrorConfigCache;
}

/**
* Inserts error HTML into a field's container, tagging every inserted top-level
* element with a data-frm-error attribute. removeFieldError()/removeAllErrors() rely
* on that attribute (rather than the frm_error class) to find and remove the visible
* error element again, since a site's own custom field HTML template can render the
* [error] placeholder without a frm_error class or id. This only covers the visible
* element — aria-describedby cleanup still depends on an id, which custom markup may
* not have.
*
* @param {HTMLElement} container
* @param {string} errorHtml
* @return {void}
*/
function insertErrorHtml( container, errorHtml ) {
const template = document.createElement( 'template' );
template.innerHTML = errorHtml;
Array.from( template.content.children ).forEach( el => el.setAttribute( 'data-frm-error', '' ) );
container.append( template.content );

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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]

[error]
[/if error]) plus nested/multi-sibling/pre-existing-class cases.

}

function addFieldError( $fieldCont, key, jsErrors ) {
const container = $fieldCont instanceof jQuery ? $fieldCont.get( 0 ) : $fieldCont;

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const roleString = config.includeAlertRole ? 'role="alert"' : '';
errorHtml = `<div class="frm_error" ${ roleString } id="${ id }">${ jsErrors[ key ] }</div>`;
}
container.insertAdjacentHTML( 'beforeend', errorHtml );
insertErrorHtml( container, errorHtml );
inputs.forEach( input => {
describedBy = input.getAttribute( 'aria-describedby' );
if ( ! describedBy ) {
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return;
}

const errorMessage = container.querySelector( '.frm_error' );
const errorMessages = container.querySelectorAll( '.frm_error, [data-frm-error]' );
const input = container.querySelector( 'input, select, textarea' );

container.classList.remove( 'frm_blank_field', 'has-error' );
Expand All @@ -1291,10 +1311,10 @@ function frmFrontFormJS() {
}
}

if ( errorMessage ) {
errorMessages.forEach( errorMessage => {

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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.

removeElementFromInputDescribedBy( errorMessage );
errorMessage.remove();
}
} );
}

/**
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document.querySelectorAll( '.form-field' ).forEach( field => {
field.classList.remove( 'frm_blank_field', 'has-error' );
} );
document.querySelectorAll( '.form-field .frm_error' ).forEach( el => {
document.querySelectorAll( '.form-field .frm_error, .form-field [data-frm-error]' ).forEach( el => {
removeElementFromInputDescribedBy( el );
el.remove();
} );
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1473,7 +1493,7 @@ function frmFrontFormJS() {
}

function checkForErrorsAndMaybeSetFocus() {
const errors = document.querySelectorAll( '.frm_form_field .frm_error' );
const errors = document.querySelectorAll( '.frm_form_field .frm_error, .frm_form_field [data-frm-error]' );
if ( ! errors.length ) {
return;
}
Expand All @@ -1497,6 +1517,9 @@ function frmFrontFormJS() {
let timeoutCallback;
do {
element = element.previousSibling;
if ( ! element ) {
break;
}
if ( [ 'input', 'select', 'textarea' ].includes( element.nodeName.toLowerCase() ) ) {
focusInput( element );
break;
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