Micke Alm
 · Head of User Experience at Steven, free-time builder/founder

Form validation widget behavior

Hello!
First question for the forum (and thanks for all the helpful discussions)!

I'm having issues with the form validation widget from a UX perspective. When I set a field to validate as e-mail for example, Flutterflow starts the validation too early. Before the user has even gotten to the @-symbol, the app is telling the user they have not filled in a valid e-mail address, which is a terrible experience. We should be telling the user something is wrong when something wrong has actually occurred, not on the way to a potential problem.

To add to this, it validates the ENTIRE form when validation is set to auto. This means that while filling out the email field, the password field (that I haven't even gotten to yet) starts showing the required field error state.

So all that to say: is there a way around this, and hopefully – a way where I don't have to re-implement form validation manually through actions everywhere?

Thanks for any help!

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