I asked the question on stack overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1827483/jquery-validate-plugin-how-to-trim-values-before-form-validation
On Dec 1, 1:50 pm, tom <thomasfothe...@googlemail.com> wrote: > I'm using the jquery.validation plugin by Jörn Zaefferer and I was > wondering whether there's a easy way to trim form elements before they > are validated. > > For example, if I'm validating a email address: "t...@test.com " > using the "email : true" rule, it'll display an error because the > trailing whitespace is invalidating the email format. I was hoping I > could chain "jQuery.trim(value)" before the validation so the > whitespace is removed and the validation error never occurs? > > Disclaimer: The jquery.validation plugin documentation page currently > isn't working (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation) so I can't > RTFM.
