[jQuery] Re: Required field via selection box

2008-04-30 Thread Wil Everts
Hey Mark, Sorry, I've been in the basement trying to finish up a release this week. I hope you got that figured out, if not here are my quick thoughts. (Also, sorry for the $j usage in the original, I use jQuery in safe mode at work.) I would probably set a variable like: if (containsStar >= 0)

[jQuery] Re: Required field via selection box

2008-04-29 Thread Mark Clemons
That's awesome! Just what I was looking for. In addition to that i also want to make the field required, so if they don't choose an asterix field, it's not required but if they do then i want them to fill in the additional field. Not sure how to merge your solution with the jquery Validation code

[jQuery] Re: Required field via selection box

2008-04-28 Thread Wil Everts
Mark, Here's some general sketching to help you along. There are likely other/better ways to go about this, but this should work out for you. Where "selectVar" is the id of the select box: $j("#selectVar").change( function() { // when something is selected run this var containsStar = $j("#s