>>> [!note] Migrated issue <!-- Drupal.org comment --> <!-- Migrated from issue #2504847. --> Reported by: [mgifford](https://www.drupal.org/user/27930) >>> <p>This planning issue shows all followups from <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/1493324" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#1493324: Inline form errors for accessibility and UX</a></span>.</p> <p>Inline Form Errors is currently <strong>Alpha</strong>. </p> <p>Once stable it will be added to the core package in: <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2897652" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2897652: Move Inline Form Errors module out of Core (Experimental) package and into the Core package</a></span>.</p> <p>Note that Inline Form Errors was under consideration for removal from core based on limited progress on these blockers, in accordance with the <a href="https://www.drupal.org/core/experimental">experimental module policy</a>. The following "must-have" issues needed to be addressed (fixed or mostly fixed) by 8.3.0's beta phase in order for Inline Form errors to remain in core.</p> <p><strong>Deadlines</strong></p> <ul> <li><del>Alpha: (Before core 8.3.0-beta1)</del></li> <li>Beta: July 30 (Before core 8.4.0-alpha1)</li> <li>Release candidate: August 7</li> <li>Stable: August 13 (Before core release 8.4.0-beta1)</li> </ul> <p>*) These issues are problematic even without IFE!</p> <h3>Must have</h3> <h4>Complete by February 1, 2017</h4> <ul> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2346773" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2346773: Details form element should open when there are errors on child elements</a></span>*</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2754977" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2754977: Enhance formErrorHandler to include children errors on RenderElements</a></span>*</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2729663" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2729663: Fragment link pointing to &lt;textarea&gt; should be redirected to CKEditor instance when CKEditor replaced that textarea</a></span></li> </ul> <h4> Complete by March 13, 2017</h4> <ul> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2828092" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2828092: Inline Form Errors not compatible with Quick Edit </a></span></li> </ul> <h4>Complete by August 7, 2017</h4> <ul> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2531700" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2531700: Fragment links to children elements in closed grouping elements don't work</a></span>*</li> <li><del>Full accessibility review and signoff by an accessibility maintainer</del> DONE in comment at <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2897652" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2897652: Move Inline Form Errors module out of Core (Experimental) package and into the Core package</a></span></li> </ul> <h3>Should have</h3> <h4>Complete by February 1, 2017</h4> <ul> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2509268" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2509268: Inline errors repeated on child elements in module uninstall form</a></span></li> </ul> <h4>Complete by July 30, 2017</h4> <ul> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2482783" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2482783: File upload errors not set or shown correctly</a></span>* (try to backport a patch-safe hotfix)</li> </ul> <h4>Complete by August 7, 2017</h4> <ul> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2856950" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2856950: Add a possibility to disable inline form errors for a complete form</a></span> followup to allow any module/form to disable IFE.</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-4"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2848507" title="Status: Postponed">#2848507: Indicate that grouping elements have child element errors for ux and a11y</a></span>*</li> </ul> <h4>Complete by August 13, 2017</h4> <ul> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2888189" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2888189: Update hook_help and DO docs for Inline Form Errors</a></span></li> </ul> <h3>Could have (non-blocking bugs and normal followup work)</h3> <ul> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-4"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2915899" title="Status: Postponed">#2915899: [PP-1] Enable the Inline Form Errors module in the Standard profile and recipe</a></span></li> <li>8.4.x followup to implement new APIs and support contrib after <span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2244513" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2244513: Move the unmanaged file APIs to the file_system service (file.inc)</a></span> is fixed</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/1797438" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#1797438: HTML5 validation is preventing form submit and not fully accessible</a></span>* This is a nice to have regarding IFE, but a big issue for Drupal in general.</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-13"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2455933" title="Status: Needs work">#2455933: Error highlighting and reporting problems for the current password on the user profile form</a></span>*</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-13"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2560467" title="Status: Needs work">#2560467: Inline Errors not shown for container elements</a></span></li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-13"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2457373" title="Status: Needs work">#2457373: Inline form error links should bring form element title, form element and the error in view</a></span></li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-1"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2687251" title="Status: Active">#2687251: Radios / Checkboxes focus styling wrong when marked as having an error</a></span>*</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-13"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/933004" title="Status: Needs work">#933004: Test that all form elements have a #title for accessibility</a></span> (Title finding logic should also search for titles of parent elements)</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-13"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2848307" title="Status: Needs work">#2848307: Inline errors not working on form table elements</a></span></li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-1"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2848319" title="Status: Active">#2848319: Find a way to make it easier to hide Inline Form Error messages on child elements</a></span></li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-16"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2897601" title="Status: Postponed (maintainer needs more info)">#2897601: Incorrect #children_errors count from bubbled errors in compound elements </a></span>* This can be a problem wherever you want to know the number of form errors (e.g. IFE could indicate how many errors are inside a closed grouping container).</li> </ul> <h3>Minor issues (Non blockers / Nice to haves)</h3> <ul> <li>Better style errors on fieldsets.</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-4"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2876321" title="Status: Postponed">#2876321: Update inline form errors summary after form validation with AJAX</a></span></li> <li>Discussion: UX improvement: Place inline errors before the field and after the label.</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2501903" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2501903: inline form errors classnames to follow namestandard</a></span> cleaning the classnames</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-3"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2687249" title="Status: Closed (duplicate)">#2687249: Improve inline form errors for file upload fields</a></span></li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2702545" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#2702545: Edit the Inline Form Error module description</a></span></li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-13"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/2827034" title="Status: Needs work">#2827034: DateList and date range inline form errors are repeated</a></span> Element is hardly used?</li> <li><span class="drupalorg-gitlab-issue-link project-issue-status-info project-issue-status-7"><a href="https://www.drupal.org/project/drupal/issues/77245" title="Status: Closed (fixed)">#77245: Provide a common API for displaying JavaScript messages</a></span>*</li> </ul> <h2>Testing and reviewing results</h2> <p>To get a quick overview of what has been implemented, how IFE looks, and to test open issues you can use this <strong>helper module</strong>:<br><br> <a href="https://github.com/dmsmidt/errorstyle" title="Helper module">https://github.com/dmsmidt/errorstyle</a> (Credits: vijaycs85, dmsmidt, skaught-, mparker17). <br><br> Browse to <a href="http://your-test-site.localhost/error-style/form">http://your-test-site.localhost/error-style/form</a><br><br> Note: HTML5 errors are disabled on the test form.</p> <p>Click on this image for an overview off all form elements. Note that so many errors on the same page is unrealistic and that the image is not exhaustive in terms of user interaction with form elements. </p> <p><a href="https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/ife_overview.png" title="Full overview of IFE"><img src="https://www.drupal.org/files/issues/ife_overview_thumb.png" alt=""></a></p> > Related issue: [Issue #2509268](https://www.drupal.org/node/2509268) > Related issue: [Issue #2242631](https://www.drupal.org/node/2242631) > Related issue: [Issue #2729287](https://www.drupal.org/node/2729287) > Related issue: [Issue #2702545](https://www.drupal.org/node/2702545) > Related issue: [Issue #2729663](https://www.drupal.org/node/2729663) > Related issue: [Issue #2897652](https://www.drupal.org/node/2897652) > Related issue: [Issue #1493324](https://www.drupal.org/node/1493324)