# Validation on Form Save

Rules are: required-and-empty gives "<Label> is required"; a URL must parse to a safe web address; text and textarea must sit within the Minimum/Maximum characters when Limit character length is on; a number must be numeric, whole when decimals are off, and within Minimum/Maximum. Validation runs only when a Form container's Save is pressed.

![The Input configuration dialog with Input type set to Number, Allow decimal values switched on, empty Minimum and Maximum boxes and Required switched off.](https://help.gocapable.com/images/a2d4b61f-bb49-47e4-97fe-e5d2f03cea5e.webp)

A number field's decimal, minimum and maximum settings are what an answer is checked against when the form is saved.

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## Where you do it

| **Task**                              | **Where**                     |
| ------------------------------------- | ----------------------------- |
| Publish the page and fill the form in | The published Confluence page |

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## Worth knowing

* Validation runs only on a Form container's Save. A standalone Input macro autosaves and is never validated, so Required, character limits and number bounds are silently unenforced there.

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## Related

[Forms catalogue (All forms)Another part of how this works.](https://help.gocapable.com/forms/forms-catalogue-all-forms.html)

[Per-form responses viewAnother part of how this works.](https://help.gocapable.com/forms/per-form-responses-view.html)

[How it worksThe rest.](https://help.gocapable.com/forms/how-it-works.html)

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_How it actually behaves._