Your code looks fine, could you post a testpage?
Jörn
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 9:53 PM, paulswansea <sendtoswan...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm trying to get the validate plugin to work with a select box, but
> for some reason, it wont validate if i select a country, what am i
> doing wrong?
>
> <form id="testform" method="post">
> <select name="country" id="country">
> <option value="">Select a country</option>
> <option value="AF">Afghanistan</option>
> <option value="AX">Aland Islands</option>
> <option value="AL">Albania</option>
> <option value="GB.WLS">Wales</option>
> </select>
> <input id="submitbtn" name="submitbtn" type="submit" />
> </form>
> <script type="text/javascript">
> $('#testform').validate({
> messages : {
> country : {
> required : 'select country',
> minlength : 'choose a country'
> },
> },
> rules : {
> country : {
> required : true,
> minlength: 2
> },
> },
> success: function(label) {
> label.html(" ").addClass("checked");
> }
>
> });
>
> </script>
>
