Try this:
$('#searchButton').click(function(){
if ($('#testBlog').valid())
formDoAjaxSubmit();
});
Jörn
On Wed, Aug 12, 2009 at 8:04 PM, Rockinelle<ericbles...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am walking into an existing form that uses a custom ajax request to
> display search results at the button of the page. This is triggered by
> clicking a form button. I want to trigger the validation on this same
> click event rather than a submit event. I am just using basic
> validation at the moment.
>
>
> <script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
> $(document).ready(function(){
> $('#testBlog').validate();
>
> $('#searchButton').click(function(){
> formDoAjaxSubmit();
> });
> });
> </script>
>
> <form id="testBlog" name="testBlog">
> <select name="catSelectList" id="catSelectList" class="required"
> title="Please Select a Category" style="width:610px" >
> <option>....</option>
> <option>....</option>
> <option>....</option>
> <option>....</option>
> </select>
> <input type="button" value="Submit this Query!"
> id="searchButton">
> </form>
>
