Your code should have been:
$.validator.addMethod('myEqual', function (value, element, param)
{
return value >= $(param).val(); // this works know
}, 'Please enter a greater year!');
On Jul 23, 12:21 pm, Erwin Purnomo <panda...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello all
>
> I have added a method on jQuery validator like this
>
> $.validator.addMethod('myEqual', function (value, element) {
> return value == element.value; // this one here didn't work :(
> }, 'Please enter a greater year!');
>
> $.metadata.setType("attr", "validate");
>
> $("#educationForm").validate({
> showErrors: function(errorMap, errorList) {
>
> this.defaultShowErrors();
> },
> errorPlacement: function(error, element) {
> error.appendTo( element.parent("td").next
> ("td") );
> },
> /*success: function(label) {
> label.text("ok!").addClass("success");
> },*/
> rules: {
> txt_end: {
> required: true,
> myEqual: "#txt_begin"
> }
> },
> submitHandler: function() {
> }
> });
>
> the form looks like this
>
> <div id="wrapper_form">
> <form id="educationForm" name="educationForm" method="post"
> action="">
> <table width="500" border="0">
> <tr>
> <td width="100">Period:</td>
> <td width="200"><input type="text" name="txt_begin"
> id="txt_begin" size="8" maxlength="4" class="required year ui-widget-
> content ui-corner-all" /> to
> <input type="text" name="txt_end" id="txt_end" size="8"
> maxlength="4" class="required year ui-widget-content ui-corner-all" /></td>
>
> <td width="200"></td>
> </tr>
> <tr>
> <td colspan="2">
> <input type="submit" name="btn_submit" id="btn_submit"
> value="Submit" class="ui-button ui-state-default ui-corner-all" />
> <input type="button" name="btn_cancel" id="btn_cancel"
> value="Cancel" class="ui-button ui-state-default ui-corner-all" />
> </td>
> <td> </td>
> </tr>
> </table>
> </form>
> </div>
>
> but why the custom method I added didn't work?
>
> return value == element.value; // this one here didn't work :(
>
> it always return true for any value :( am I missing something here? I
> didn't use the built in method because later in the form I would
> require to write another method to check for greater or equal and
> lower or equal ( ">=" and "<=" ) I have tested this method with
> greater or equal and lower or equal by replacing the "==" with ">=" or
> with "<=" It didn't work either
