Changes to Required Field ‘title’ Attribute in SharePoint?!??!?

Client Side Devs!!  I’ve got to help spread the word about this. Microsoft has decided to change the way the “title” attribute field is rendered for required fields in SharePoint.

So instead of referencing a the “Title” field using jQuery like:

$(input[title=’Title’]”)

If “Title” is a required field you must now reference this field like:

$(input[title=’Title Required Field’]”)

Personally, I think it’s a bad decision to change something that’s been ingrained since SharePoint 2007, and thousands of developers have embraced.

This “feature” was first reported in Office 365, but there are reports of it cropping up in SharePoint 2010 after applying the latest updates.

Developers, please be aware of this change and modify your scripts accordingly!!!

For those of you looking for a quick fix

You can place the following few lines of script as the first line in your document.ready function. This script finds all those required fields and strips out the “ Required Field” text so that your old scripts should function properly. Is it a hack?? ABSOLUTELY! Will it get your scripts working again? yes sir/ma’am… It should at least give you some relief until you can come up with a better plan.  Good luck to you!

$(document).ready(function() {    
    $("[title$=' Required Field']").each(function()
    {
        $(this).attr("title",$(this).attr("title").replace(" Required Field",""));
    });
});

Again, I’m not saying you should put this script in place and forget about it. I’m saying, you can put this script in place to get your broken forms working again and give you some breathing room to go and refactor as needed.

For more information about this “feature” introduced to SharePoint, and to check out a great discussion about the topic check out Marc Anderson’s blog where I first found out about this:

http://sympmarc.com/2014/01/23/office-365-update-changes-display-name-on-required-fields/

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