Dan, many thanks for the explanation. It took a couple of read throughs but it all makes sense.
I thought I'd try the $.ajax method as suggested and after much mucking about it seems to be working :) The only thing that doesn't work is the timeout which is (very) bad because, as you pointed out, if the validation page doesn't respond / takes too long the browser locks. Under the circumstances (single app on a dedicated server) I'm prepared to take the risk. Obviously, if someone can tell me why the timeout doesn't work here I'd love to know. Jörn, thanks for the link. My first attempt to get this working followed the ideas in the thread here http://www.nabble.com/Calling-all-CF%27ers...-et-al...-tf3392261.html#a9445312 combined with showErrors but the idea of everything being kept in one place was too appealing to ignore :) The method so far: remote: function(value, element, param) { var isvalid = $.ajax( { timeout: 1000, async: false, url: param+"?value="+value } ).responseText; if($.trim(isvalid) == 'true') { return true; } }, _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
