Added ability to adjust what element a fields prompt is shown on (useful for when hidden inputs are set to validate) by supplying either an ID in the data-jqv-prompt-at data attribute, or using jQuery's .data( method and supplying a jQuery object e.g. .data('jqv-prompt-at', );

Author: Matthew Hailwood

js/jquery.validationEngine.js

@@ -342,9 +342,18 @@
 					errorFound |= methods._validateField(field, options);
 					if (errorFound && first_err==null)
 						if (field.is(":hidden") && options.prettySelect)
-										 first_err = field = form.find("#" + options.usePrefix + methods._jqSelector(field.attr('id')) + options.useSuffix);
-									else
-										 first_err=field;
+							first_err = field = form.find("#" + options.usePrefix + methods._jqSelector(field.attr('id')) + options.useSuffix);
+						else {
+
+							//Check if we need to adjust what element to show the prompt on
+							//and and such scroll to instead
+							if(field.data('jqv-prompt-at') instanceof jQuery ){
+								field = field.data('jqv-prompt-at');
+							} else if(field.data('jqv-prompt-at')) {
+								field = $(field.data('jqv-prompt-at'));
+							}
+							first_err=field;
+						}
 					if (options.doNotShowAllErrosOnSubmit)
 						return false;
 					names.push(field.attr('name'));
@@ -1510,6 +1519,13 @@
 		* @param {Map} options user options
 		*/
 		 _showPrompt: function(field, promptText, type, ajaxed, options, ajaxform) {
+		 	//Check if we need to adjust what element to show the prompt on
+			if(field.data('jqv-prompt-at') instanceof jQuery ){
+				field = field.data('jqv-prompt-at');
+			} else if(field.data('jqv-prompt-at')) {
+				field = $(field.data('jqv-prompt-at'));
+			}
+
 			 var prompt = methods._getPrompt(field);
 			 // The ajax submit errors are not see has an error in the form,
 			 // When the form errors are returned, the engine see 2 bubbles, but those are ebing closed by the engine at the same time