Title: onClick validate?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# onClick validate?

 *  [bunnycode](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bunnycode/)
 * (@bunnycode)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/onclick-validate/)
 * Hi! If I wanted to trigger the validation results for fields on a link/button
   click (rather than solely Submit), how would I do that?
 * I’m using a step through form with a progress bar, and I’d like the user to not
   have to click to previous steps a bunch of times if on the last step they have
   an error on, say, the first step.
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## Tags

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 * [validation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/validation/)

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/onclick-validate/)
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