formField, existing input, and validation

[mcohnen]

Hi,

I am trying to use TextField to format and validate an existing input. This is my code:

var formField = new Ext.form.TextField({el:"name", maxLength:5, msgTarget: 'side', autoCreate: false});
            formField.render();

It works fine, but when validation files, there is a javascript error in the ext in the line with this code

var B=this.el.findParent(".x-form-element",5,true)

Error is not in this line, but is caused because B is null. Is it mandatory that my form has the class "x-form-element" ?

What am i doing wrong? Thank you!!!

[tryanDLS]

Assuming that that error is coming from Field.markInvalid, then yes 'x-form-element' is required. It's trying to find the parent container so that it can display the validation error message/icon.

Some of the other field classes can be customized, not sure why that one is hard-coded. Maybe this should be an enhancement.