apparenty not :-)
just for the record - i'm doing things like this: <code> jQuery.validator.addMethod( "lowercase", function(value, element) { jQuery(element).val(value.toLowerCase()); return true; },"" ) </code> which i can then apply in validation like <code> var validator = $("#myform").validate({ rules: { "myfield": "lowercase" } }) </code> clearly, thats not really validation, but the issue is it needs to be executed right before other validation, at the same moments interfacewise ... $2c, *-pike