I'm using the jQuery Validation plugin and love it. However, in one instance, I'm not able to get the validator to behave as I want. I'm including a simplified version of what I'm trying to do (I'm using the latest code on the validator and 1.4.3 of jquery.).
Goal: Validate the drop down ONLY upon submit. I don't want to validate it if they switch the selected item back and forth.
Problem: The validator still fires when the drop down is selected back to the original item and shows an error.
Steps To Reproduce:
1. Open the page.
2. Select 'Test Item 1' from the drop down
3. Select '[Select An Item From The List Below]' (original item from the drop down)
4. Click on the Text Area.
5. Validation Fires * (I don't want this to happen. Again, I only want to validate on Submit)
Am I doing something wrong here? Thanks for the help.
CODE:
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">