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Nested fields

Informel supports nested fields (arrays or objects or arrays of objects). Just specify the object path in the name attribute of the field. For example, the following form:

<inform-el>
<form>
<label>
First Name
<input type="text" name="users[0].name.first" value="John" />
</label>
<label>
Last Name
<input type="text" name="users[0].name.last" value="Doe" />
</label>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
</inform-el>

will yield the following values:

{
users: [{
name: {
first: 'John',
last: 'Doe'
}
}];
}

For arrays, users[0].name is equivalent to users.0.name.

Here is a live example:

Custom validation with nested fields​

For setting custom validation rules, just return the full field path from the validationHandler method:

document.querySelector('inform-el').validationHandler = ({ values }) => {
if(values.users[0].name.first===' '){
return {
'values.users[0].name.first': 'No blank values!'
}
}
};

Check out the js tab of the live example above!