Hello,

thank you for your explanation. I think I get why it doesn't work. I change the em_validation_q criteria using "is_empty(this)" and it now works fine.

From the programming logic it seems to be correct. I think you might want to validate a question if you "leave" the question or try to go to the next page/submit the survey. Is there any use case where you validate a question if you answer another question? I'm not sure about that.

Anyway, I added the idea to
ideas.limesurvey.org/ideatorrent/idea/368/
so other people can give feedback or even add other solutions.

TMSWhite wrote:

Hmm... maybe something like "#F75D59" -> Indian Red1 at www.computerhope.com/htmcolor.htm

Example
SOME BOLD TEXT WITH A NICE RED COLOR

Just my two cents, but I can't think of a single instance when you would want survey respondents to see a help message containing a regular expression. It's incomprehensible. And I don't think we'd want to use the "hide tip" box to hide ALL tips on the question. Unfortunately, maybe there also needs to be a Validation Help text field next to the regex validation field?

A lot of end users are going to be pretty confused about all this

Fred-

I think you're in the majority on this - I opened a bug ticket.

/Tom

I installed RC3 and the validation messages are appearing now. Thanks.

One minor thing is that the messages are using different CSS class ids. Using the example of the multi-numeric question where the amounts must not exceed 100:

When I run the question in 1.93 it shows both messages, but using different styles

<span class="questionhelp" id="442_vmsg">The sum must equal 100</span>
<div class="survey-question-answer"><p class="tip">Only numbers may be entered in these fields

In v. 1.91 both messages use the survey-question-answer style

Fred-

The team has started a discussion about this. We need more granular styles for the various types of help/tip and validation messages. Once we have a good sense of the direction we can support/recommend, we'll probably solicit the community for feedback.

/Tom

Ok great. I figured there might be some other instances like this as well. Looking forward to updating my template...

Fred