Title: Form validation doesn’t stop submit
Last modified: April 3, 2023

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# Form validation doesn’t stop submit

 *  [mayy3321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayy3321/)
 * (@mayy3321)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-validation-doesnt-stop-submit/)
 * Is this normal?
 * “Email is invalid”, “___ is too short”
 * But it sends the form anyway.
 * None of the built in checks stop form sending. minlength:8
 * It’s all in the hand written code in the theme. wpcf7_validate_textarea etc
 * Is there a plugin that works for those, instead of having to ftp in files each
   time editing the site?
 * Or a way to read my own minlength:8 and write another function in the theme code?
    -  This topic was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by [mayy3321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayy3321/).

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 *  Thread Starter [mayy3321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayy3321/)
 * (@mayy3321)
 * [3 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/form-validation-doesnt-stop-submit/#post-16623484)
 * I already have stuff like
 *     ```wp-block-code
       	if(empty($_POST[$tag->name]) || strlen($_POST[$tag->name]) == 0) {
       		$result->invalidate( $tag, "Field cannot be empty." );
       	}
   
       	return $result;
       ```
   
 * But what’s a good way to do minlength myself? I can’t set them all the same. 
   I’m basically coding the form in php not in the plugin.
 * I guess the recommended contact form 7 way is to write each code? so all emails
   in the theme must be 6 char, or something like that? I’ll have 1 function for
   each type of field.
 * doesn’t help with all the text fields.
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by [mayy3321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayy3321/).
    -  This reply was modified 3 years, 3 months ago by [mayy3321](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mayy3321/).

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