Thank you, yes I'm familiar with equalTo. My question was more about the syntax for creating the custom rule/ method.
On Mar 22, 8:56 am, Jörn Zaefferer <joern.zaeffe...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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