For that to work you need to load the metadata plugin and have it configured to use the validate-attribute for metadata. Can't that in your code anywhere.
See http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/radio-checkbox-select-demo.html for an example: $.metadata.setType("attr", "validate"); Jörn On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:24 PM, Raymond Camden <rcam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I'm trying to work up a demo of a custom validation rule that uses > metadata only. I've cobbled the following together but the custom rule > never fires: > > <script> > $(document).ready(function(){ > jQuery.validator.addMethod("range_exp", function(value, element, > params) { > return this.optional(element) || ( (value >= params[0] && value <= > params[1]) || value == params[2] ); > }, "Please enter between {0} and {1} or {2}"); > $("#commentForm").validate(); > }); > </script> > > <input id="WBC_I" type="text" size="6" validate="range_exp:[ 1, > 999,'ND' ]" value="" name="WBC_I"/> > > Obviously I've stripped a bit out, but what am I missing here? >
