Your input elements must have a name, otherwise the validation doesn't work.
Jörn
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 2:49 PM, whitewaterbug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I am trying to get the validate plugin and the form plugin to work
> together. I would like to use in HTML markup to describe the
> validation, as it seems cleaner to read to me. So, I downloaded
> jquery, form, validate, and metadata...whipped up a quick form and
> tried it out.
>
> From firebug, I can see that all scripts are being downloaded
> successfully. But no validations are happening on th email text
> input. The tag I thought would turn the validation on is:
>
> <INPUT Type="text" class="required email">
>
> Here is the actual form...what did I miss?
>
> thanks!!
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
>
> <html>
> <head>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.2.6.min.js"></
> script>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.form.js"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.validate.js"></script>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.metadata.js"></script>
>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> // wait for the DOM to be loaded
> $(document).ready(function() {
> // bind 'myForm' and provide a simple callback function
> $('#myForm').ajaxForm(function() {
> alert("Thank you for your comment!");
> });
> $("#myForm").validate();
>
> });
> </script>
> </head>
> <body>
>
> <FORM id="myform" ACTION="http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela/
> echo.cgi"
> METHOD="POST">
> <P>
> Type something:<BR>
> <TEXTAREA ROWS=5 COLS=72 NAME=Comments>
> This is
> some text
> in several lines.
> </TEXTAREA>
> <p>
> <INPUT TYPE="checkbox" NAME="box" VALUE="yes">Check me!
> <P>
> <INPUT Type="text" class="required email">
> <INPUT TYPE="HIDDEN" NAME="hidden field" VALUE="something">
> <INPUT TYPE="SUBMIT" VALUE="Send">
> </FORM>
> </body>
> </html>
