How to validate password and confirm password in react hook form? Is there any validate property and message in react hook form to show errors?

Question

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Actually, I try to validate the form and Stucked to validate the password and confirm the password.. is there any property in useForm to validate the password and show a message in react hook form in the latest version. please help. Actually, I try to validate the form and Stucked to validate the password and confirm the password.. is there any property in useForm to validate the password and show a message in react hook form in the latest version. please help.

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import React, { useState } from 'react'
import Image from '../../../Components/UI/Images/Image'
import SubmitButton from '../../../Components/UI/Button/Button'
import {useForm} from 'react-hook-form'
import illustrate from '../../../Assets/Imagesused/resetpass.png'
import '../Login/Login.css'
import "./CreatePass.css"
import "../ChangePassword/ChangePass.css"

const CreatePass = () => {

//show password
const [toggle1, setToggle1] = useState(false);
const [toggle2, setToggle2] = useState(false);
let password;

const { register, handleSubmit, formState: { errors }, reset,watch,getValues } = useForm({
    mode: "onTouched"
});
password = watch("password", "");

const onSubmit = (data) => {
    
    console.log(data);
    reset();
}


return (
    <div className='Container'>
        <div className='illustration-box'>
            <Image imge={illustrate}/>
        </div>
        <div>
            <form className='Login-Box' onSubmit={handleSubmit(onSubmit)}>
                <div className='Heading1'>
                    <h1 className='Login-Heading'>Create Password</h1>
                </div>
                
                <div className='type-box1'>
                    <div className='Label1'>
                        <label >
                         Password
                        </label>
                    </div>
                    <div className='input1'>
                        <i id="passlock" className="fa fa-lock icon"></i>
                        <i id="showpass" className="fa fa-eye icon" onClick={() => { setToggle1(!toggle1) }}></i>
                        <input className='input-field' size={"44"} type={toggle1 ? "text" : "password"} placeholder='Password' name="password" {...register("password", { required: "**Password is required", minLength: { value: 4, message: "**Password must be more than 4 characters" }, maxLength: { value: 12, message: "**Password cannot exceed more than 12 characters" }})}></input>
                    </div>
                    <p className='alerts'>{errors.password?.message}</p>
                    <div className='Label2'>
                        <label >
                           Confirm Password
                        </label>
                    </div>
                    <div className='input2'>
                        <i id="passlock" className="fa fa-lock icon"></i>
                        <i id="showpass" className="fa fa-eye icon" onClick={() => { setToggle2(!toggle2) }}></i>
                        <input className='input-field' size={"44"} type={toggle2 ? "text" : "password"} placeholder='Password' name="cpassword" {...register("cpassword", { required: "**Password is required" },{validate: (value) => value === getValues("password")})}></input>
                    </div>
                    <p className='alerts'>{errors.cpassword?.message}</p>
                    <div className='Button'>
                        <SubmitButton className="Login-Button4" Label="Proceed"  ></SubmitButton>
                    </div>
                </div>
                
            </form>

        </div>

    </div>
)
}

export default CreatePass

Answer 1

You should use yup and @hookform/resolvers for validation definitions to easily configure it.

  const formSchema = Yup.object().shape({
    password: Yup.string()
      .required("Password is required")
      .min(4, "Password length should be at least 4 characters")
      .max(12, "Password cannot exceed more than 12 characters"),
    cpassword: Yup.string()
      .required("Confirm Password is required")
      .min(4, "Password length should be at least 4 characters")
      .max(12, "Password cannot exceed more than 12 characters")
      .oneOf([Yup.ref("password")], "Passwords do not match")
  });

const {
    register,
    handleSubmit,
    formState: { errors },
    reset,
    watch,
    getValues
  } = useForm({
    mode: "onTouched",
    resolver: yupResolver(formSchema)
  });

And change register calls to only contain the name of the filed.

<input
    ...
    ...
    {...register("password")}
></input>

<input
    ...
    ...
    {...register("cpassword")}
></input>

Code sandbox => https://codesandbox.io/s/summer-glade-pjg06?file=/src/App.js

Answer 2

You can do this with react hook forms alone. You can use watch from react hook form to get this done. This lets you listen for changes in the password field, which you can use in your confirm password validate method to compare the password with the confirm password field value as show below;

const {register, watch} = useForm();
<input
 {...register("password", {
  required: true
 })}
/>
<input
 {...register("confirm_password", {
  required: true,
  validate: (val: string) => {
    if (watch('password') != val) {
      return "Your passwords do no match";
    }
  },
 })}
/>

Answer 3

Try the below for 7.x that works for me

const {
    register,
    getValues,
  } = useForm();

<input
   
    {...register("password")}
></input>
<input
    {...register("cpassword",  validate: (value) => {
              const { password } = getValues();
              return password === value || "Passwords should match!";
            })}
></input>

Answer 4

Adding to Amila Senadheera answer and to answer llcho Talesky, "if you type in password confirm and then go back in the first password field and type the same password".

    const {
    register,
    handleSubmit,
    formState: { errors },
    reset,
    watch,
    trigger,
    getValues
  } = useForm({
    mode: "onTouched",
    resolver: yupResolver(formSchema)
  });

const password = watch("password");
  useEffect(() => {
    trigger("cpassword");
  }, [password, trigger]);

So in the code using useEffect changes to the password field is monitored and using it validation on confirm password is triggered