Regarding the solution above, that's a different style of validation that works great in some situations, but for this app I really want to pursue the concept of not enabling the submit button until the form is valid.
Yes, I didn't mean to imply you should change "how" you're validating the form. I should have written it like this: $('form').submit(function() { var val = $('[EMAIL PROTECTED]', this).val(); // insert validation handling here! return val != null; }); Cheers! Mike