Sorry I couldn't wait for my other post to showup, so I made a typo: <html> <head> <title>jQuery Validation test</title> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-validate/ jquery.validate.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("#poesForm").validate({ rules : { name: { required : true } } }); });
</script> </head> <body> <form id="poesForm"> <input type="text" id="name" class="required" /> <input type="submit" /> </form> </body> </html>