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Anyone reading this has enough time and money to fund another person now:

https://watsi.org/fund-treatments

Do it.

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Incredibly the donate form was so frictionless it not only didn't complain when I.didn't fill in the email address it also didn't complain when I didn't give a name either. No other charitable platform I've seen has let me get away with that, they want an email with which to track and leverage, so props to the Watsi team for making donation feel like donation and making it easy.

I just tried to donate and since I use 1password to pre-fill the CC info, their form validation didn't kick in, and the "Confirm Donation" button was still ghosted out. I had to do some sleuthing and simulate some KeyUp events before it was enabled.

If anyone from Watsi is looking, please look into this (might be an edge case though). I was close to a "eh, let me do this later." - which is bad.

Hit backspace, reenter last digit.

This is a known issue with tools like 1password and LastPass. I'm not sure how to fix it. If you have any ideas, please hit me up on Twitter: @jc00ke.

A lazy solution is to periodically check for changes to the field, independently of any events. Could also let the user behavior trigger a validation check.

I wonder if a focus/blur combo would trigger the needed event and the value would be set? I need to try it out.

If you're using the jQuery Rails validations I believe you'll have to set the input's "changed" data to true before it'll run the validations again. Something like $(".my-input").data("changed", true);

If not, then good luck :D

I would skip the auto-validation and let the user hit the always-enabled "Confirm Donation of $xx" button to validate the form. Tried and true and catches the auto-fill cases.

Yeah, we'll consider that. Thanks Dave! ;-)

Done. :)

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