optional field with validation dilemma about validity HOT 3 CLOSED

I see what you mean. When I designed minLength, I did envision it as a kind of substitute for require. However, your use-case here makes sense, so I think the behavior is wrong.

I'll go ahead and change Validity, but it's a behavioral change so I'll be making tests and it could take a few days before I commit it.

In the mean time, you can get the behavior that you want with an assert validator.

$("#company")
  .assert(
    function() { return $("#company").val().length != 1; },
    "Input must have at least 2 characters or nothing at all"
  )
  .nonHtml();

Hopefully this helps. Look for an update to Validity soon (like next few days).

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I guess I over-estimated the effort on that. I've added a fix as of this commit.

Please let me know if this fixes the issue.

Thanks!

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It works nicely. Thanks!

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