Im a little new to the plugin myself, but do you have a <form
id="myForm"....wrapping your inputs?
On Feb 24, 10:34 am, kathb4 <kat...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to use the validation plugin to validate a set of
> checkboxes which are created by my CMS (drupal) so are not changeable
> - and which look like this:
>
> <code>
> <div class="form-item" id="edit-pollutants-storage-tanks-wrapper">
> <label class="option"><input type="checkbox" name="pollutants
> [tanks]" id="edit-pollutants-storage-tanks" value="tanks"
> class="form-checkbox" /> a. Tanks (Oil, fuel chemicals)</label>
> </div>
> <div class="form-item" id="edit-pollutants-rubbish-wrapper">
> <label class="option"><input type="checkbox" name="pollutants
> [rubbish]" id="edit-pollutants-rubbish" value="rubbish" class="form-
> checkbox" /> b. Rubbish</label>
> </div>...
> </code>
>
> I want the user to select at least one of the pollutant checkboxes.
> As you can see the name is in the format pollutants[xxxx].
>
> I don't want to have to validate each option, cause I want them only
> to have to choose one of the pollutants. I tried "pollutans[]" but
> that didn't work.
>
> So now I'm trying to do it by doing a combination of things
> 1. putting a required on the first one if count of checkboxes.size()==
> 0
> 2. looking for an onclick to remove the rule if any of the checkboxes
> are then checked.
>
> But the remove rule is not working.
>
> <code>
> $("inp...@name^='pollutants']").change(function(){
> $("inp...@name^='pollutants']").rules("remove");
> });
>
> $("#myForm").validate({
> rules: {
> "pollutants[tanks]": "required"
> }
> });
> </code>
>
> Any suggestions? I am rather frustrated.
