philipn
commented
9 years ago Great catch. I think this has been the source of many confusing reports we've seen.
On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 11:36 PM, Matt Hampel notifications@github.comwrote:
If you try to sign up but there is a validation error, you get error messages. However, the messages aren't visually associated with the fields, so users don't understand what the errors refer to.
In the example below, the first error looks like it isn't associated with any field and the second error is associated with the "Name" field, even though it refers to the email field. This confused a user and prevented them from signing up:
[image: 2014-02-22 11 31 16 am]https://f.cloud.github.com/assets/86435/2238147/1c44af26-9bdf-11e3-9781-ff19420889dd.png
Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHubhttps://github.com/localwiki/localwiki/issues/685 .
From @hampelm on February 22, 2014 16:36
If you try to sign up but there is a validation error, you get error messages. However, the messages aren't visually associated with the fields, so users don't understand what the errors refer to.
In the example below, the first error looks like it isn't associated with any field and the second error is associated with the "Name" field, even though it refers to the email field. This confused a user and prevented them from signing up:
Copied from original issue: localwiki/localwiki#685