Give equalTo a try: http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/Methods/equalTo
Jörn On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 7:30 AM, linojon <lino...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi > > Using the validate plugin, I'd like to write a validation method > called "confirm" that does the following: > > suppose my form has > <input type="text" id="email" class="required email"> > <input type="text" id="email_confirm" class="required email confirm"> > > what I'd like is the confirm method to look at the current object's > id, strip off the "_confirm" and check that the value matches the > corresponding field. I'd like this to be reusable. > > I've made several attempts at this but... > > thanks > > linoj > >