It still doesn't validate when the field is empty. Yes, I removed "
required: true, " in
$("#myform").validate({
rules: {
field: {
required: true,
email: true
}
}
});
The code is exactly the same just without the required: true, line as
belows.
And if I modified the <input id="field" name="field" /> to <input
class="left" id="field" name="field" onblur=alert($("#field").valid
()) /> It alerts 0 when it's empty, 0 when it's invalid email, and 1
when it's valid email address. I'm expecting 1 when field is empty.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd";>
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js";></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/
plugins/validate/lib/jquery.delegate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/
plugins/validate/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery.validator.setDefaults({
debug: true,
success: "valid"
});;
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#myform").validate({
rules: {
field: {
email: true
}
}
});
});
</script>
<style>#field { margin-left: .5em; float: left; }
#field, label { float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-
serif; font-size: small; }
br { clear: both; }
input { border: 1px solid black; margin-bottom: .5em; }
input.error { border: 1px solid red; }
label.error {
background:
url('http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/
demo/images/unchecked.gif') no-repeat;
padding-left: 16px;
margin-left: .3em;
}
label.valid {
background:
url('http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/
demo/images/checked.gif') no-repeat;
display: block;
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="myform">
<label for="field">Required, email: </label>
<input class="left" id="field" name="field" />
<br/>
<input type="submit" value="Validate!" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
On Apr 12, 3:36 am, Jörn Zaefferer <[email protected]>
wrote:
> Just remove the required-rule. All other methods include a check to
> make a field optional when empty.
>
> Jörn
>
> On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 7:16 PM, NobitaNobi79 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hi, I am new to jQuery. I follow the example on
> >http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/Methods/emailto add rules
> > to a form validator. When I modified the rules to email: true
> > (required: false), the script seems to stall there, no error message
> > nor a check. Can someone tell me if I am doing anything wrong here?
> > What I want is to let the validation pass if the optional fields are
> > valid when they are filled or they are left out empty.
>
> > I can, of course add an extra script like...
> > if (($("#field").val() == "") || $("#field").valid()) {
> > optionalValid = true;
> > }
> > But it seems very redundant considering the rules: { field: {email:
> > true, required: false}}, with or without the default required: false
> > option.
>
> > Thanks
