cfinput required="yes" not working

[biene22]

Hello,

my coldfusion application runs in Intranet  and  Internet (https://www.xxx.com/inputform.cfm)

When I open my CF-Page from Internet,  server side validation does not work.

No popup comes to tell that the required form field isn't filled out.

When I run the CF-Page as an internal Intanet application (http://servername/inputform.cfm)

the validation works fine.

Here is an example of an

<cfinput name="catalog" type="text"   required="Yes" message="Catalog is required" >

Is https protocol the reason?

Best regard

Claudia

[Steve Sommers · Accepted solution]

Fist guess, the CFIDE virtual directory is not configured for your external site. This directory contains a scripts folder that houses the JS files that the client-side CF validation requires. Next guess would be a JS error is being triggered, preventing the validation. Try running a client side debugging tool like Firebug in Firefox or the IE programmer tools. Either will point out the issue(s) of missing files or JS exceptions.

Lastly, I recommend getting away from using CFFORM, CFINPUT, etc., for client-side validation. Use the native form and input tags and  Incorporate something like jquery validation. It's much more state-of-the-art and gives you much more control over the user experience.