From 1bacb09005a753748833efd6e3a0e037b6520023 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: opalenet-serge <serge@opale.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Jan 2014 16:20:39 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] placeholder interfer with required

couldn't have a valid value for a placeholder
ex : placeholder '999' in an required integer field
---
 js/jquery.validationEngine.js | 2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/js/jquery.validationEngine.js b/js/jquery.validationEngine.js
index 78a363c..361c64e 100644
--- a/js/jquery.validationEngine.js
+++ b/js/jquery.validationEngine.js
@@ -915,11 +915,9 @@
 				default:
 					var field_val      = $.trim( field.val()                               );
 					var dv_placeholder = $.trim( field.attr("data-validation-placeholder") );
-					var placeholder    = $.trim( field.attr("placeholder")                 );
 					if (
 						   ( !field_val                                    )
 						|| ( dv_placeholder && field_val == dv_placeholder )
-						|| ( placeholder    && field_val == placeholder    )
 					) {
 						return options.allrules[rules[i]].alertText;
 					}

From 5b9cbe14355db5e1fac26379c6888923f2ac648b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: opalenet-serge <serge@opale.net>
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 12:44:33 -0500
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] fadeOut with showPrompt

doing a "fade" in the _closePrompt instead of directly the "remove" would cause the field to be removed from the page wright after a call to showPrompt
---
 js/jquery.validationEngine.js | 24 ++++++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/js/jquery.validationEngine.js b/js/jquery.validationEngine.js
index 361c64e..3adb7cc 100644
--- a/js/jquery.validationEngine.js
+++ b/js/jquery.validationEngine.js
@@ -1714,12 +1714,24 @@
 		*            field
 		*/
 		 _closePrompt: function(field) {
-			 var prompt = methods._getPrompt(field);
-			 if (prompt)
-				 prompt.fadeTo("fast", 0, function() {
-					 prompt.parent('.formErrorOuter').remove();
-					 prompt.remove();
-				 });
+	                 var prompt = methods._getPrompt(field);
+             
+		     	 var form = $(field).closest('form, .validationEngineContainer');
+        		 var options = form.data('jqv');
+			 var useFade = options ? options.useFadeOnClosePrompt : true;
+			 if (prompt) {
+                 		var removePrompt = function(){
+                    			prompt.parent('.formErrorOuter').remove();
+	                    		prompt.remove();
+                 	 	}
+                 
+                 	 	if (useFade) {
+	                    		prompt.fadeTo("fast", 0, removePrompt);
+        	         	} else {
+                	     		removePrompt();
+                 		}
+			 }
+             		
 		 },
 		 closePrompt: function(field) {
 			 return methods._closePrompt(field);