Hi To call me a newbie would be to give newbies a bad name. Had a regular form working and wanted to add validation. Got the jquery thing working perfectly. to a point.
Have this: <form class="cmxform" id="form1" name="aedrec" method="GET" action="" onKeyUp="highlight(event)" onClick="highlight(event)"> Had this: <form name="aedrec" method="GET" action="saverec.php" onKeyUp="highlight(event)" onClick="highlight(event)"> What I am missing is how to 'pass' the form to saverec.php. Got this from the example: $.validator.setDefaults({ submitHandler: function() { alert("submitted!"); } }); Obviosuly did nothing but pop an alert. I get that this will do nothing. That, however, doesn;t help me much. So I tried this: $("#form1").validate({ submitHandler: function(form1) { $(form1).ajaxsubmit() ; }); What I get from this is a mysql error as it seems to be calling itself, as opposed to saverec.php, whihc, of course, makes perfect sense, since I have in no way told it to do so... I have been reading ALOT and have spent the past few days learning alot of javascript from page 1, but call me stoopid or just burnt, but I can't find how to do this simple but obviously pertinent thing. Can I be helped without having to talk a lot of javascript? I'm a very quick learner and can easily decipher code as part of the learning process (although this ajax thing is just flying over my head like a blond at a spelling bee, I will admit) . Little help? regards Owen