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Inline validation and error recovery

Use when people start a form, hit an error, and never come back to finish it.

inline-validation-error-recovery.md
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You are reviewing how a form behaves when the visitor gets something wrong. You are not redesigning the form or cutting fields.

FIELDS AND THEIR VALIDATION RULES: {{FIELD_RULES}}
ERROR MESSAGES EXACTLY AS THEY APPEAR: {{CURRENT_ERROR_TEXT}}
WHEN VALIDATION FIRES (on submit, on blur, on keystroke): {{VALIDATION_TIMING}}
FIELDS WITH THE MOST ABANDONMENT IF KNOWN: {{PROBLEM_FIELDS}}

Output a table: Field | Rule | Current message quoted from {{CURRENT_ERROR_TEXT}} | What the visitor actually did wrong | Can they fix it from the message alone? (Yes/No) | Rewritten message | Better timing.

Then answer:
- Which rules in {{FIELD_RULES}} reject input that is genuinely valid: spaces in card and phone numbers, apostrophes and accents in names, plus addressing in email, addresses outside the assumed country. List each as a defect, not a copy problem.
- Which messages blame the visitor instead of describing the fix.
- Where {{VALIDATION_TIMING}} punishes someone mid-typing, and what it should be instead.
- What happens to data already entered when a submit fails, and whether focus and scroll return to the first error.

Finish by ranking {{PROBLEM_FIELDS}} by how likely error handling is the cause, and say plainly where abandonment is more likely to be the field itself.

Do not invent error text I have not supplied. No exclamation marks and no em dashes.

Vor dem Start ausfüllen

Ersetzen Sie jeden Platzhalter durch Ihre eigenen Angaben. Je genauer Sie sind, desto weniger erfindet das Modell.

  • {{FIELD_RULES}}
  • {{CURRENT_ERROR_TEXT}}
  • {{VALIDATION_TIMING}}
  • {{PROBLEM_FIELDS}}

So wird das Ergebnis besser

  1. Paste the messages verbatim, including the ones only a server response produces.
  2. Test with a real card number containing spaces and a name with an apostrophe before you accept the rules are fine.
  3. The rules marked as defects go to engineering, not to a copywriter.