Document HTML5 validation.

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Ferry Boender 10 years ago
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### <a name="script_validation">Validation</a>
Fields of the form are validated by Scriptform before the script is called.
Fields of the form are validated by the Scriptform backend before the script is
called. If you have a HTML5 capable browser, the form will also be validated in
the browser before you submit it.
Exactly what is validated depends on the options specified in the Form
Definition. For more info on that, see the *Field Types* section of this
manual.
Form validation is somewhat limited. For example, you can force a string's
minimum and maximum length, but you cannot do more advanced validation such as
checking if it starts with a certain value. If you wish to do that, you will
have to do the validation in the script callback for a form.
### <a name="script_fieldvalues">Field values</a>
Field values are passed to the script in its environment. For instance, a form

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