jQuery form validation question

Seems I did over look the jQuery code.
I'm not sure what the proper syntax is to expand this code to work on not just "input" fields but also "textarea" field. To test I simply replaced input with textarea and it works, but I need both and every combination I've tried does not work.

Code is below... Thank you.

<script type="text/javascript">

            $(function(){
                // Grab each form element
                $("label[title]").each(function(){
                    $(this).append("<div class=\"infopop\">");
                    titletext = $(this).attr("title");
                    $(this).removeAttr("title");
                    $(".infopop",this).css({opacity:0}).html(titletext);
                    $("input",this).focus(function(){
                        // Mouseover
                        doFocus(this);
                    }).blur(function(){
                        // MouseOut
                        doBlur(this);
                    });
                });
            });

            function doFocus(obj) {
                $(obj).addClass("active").parents("label").addClass("active").find(".infopop").animate({opacity:1,left:392},400);
            }

            function doBlur(obj) {
                if (validate(obj)) {
                    isGood(obj);
                }
            }

            function reportErr(obj, message) {
                $(obj).addClass("error").parents("label").removeClass("isgood").addClass("required").addClass("error").find(".infopop").html(message).addClass("errorpop").animate({opacity:1,left:392},400);
            }

            function isGood(obj) {
                $(obj).removeClass("error").removeClass("active").parents("label").addClass("isgood").removeClass("error").removeClass("active").find(".infopop").removeClass("errorpop").animate({opacity:0,left:513},500);
            }

            function validate(obj) {
                // Extend jQuery object to include Regular expression masks assigned to properties
                mask = jQuery.extend({textfieldmask: /^[a-z\.\s-]{5,}$/i,phonemask: /^[0-9\+\.\s-]{8,}$/i,passwordmask: /^\w{5,}$/, emailmask:/^([a-z0-9\+_\-]+)(\.[a-z0-9\+_\-]+)*@([a-z0-9\-]+\.)+[a-z]{2,6}$/});
                // Extend jQuery object to include error messages assigned to properties
                errmsg = jQuery.extend({textfielderr:"5 or more letters",phoneerr: "Include dialling code",passworderr:"Minimum 5 characters",emailerr:"Invalid address",matcherr: "Must match"});

                // Set up variables to hold details of which mask to use and whether the field should match another field
                var masktouse = null;
                var mustmatch = null;
                // Determine the type of mask we're going to validate against
                switch(obj.name) {
                    case "name":         masktouse="textfieldmask";         errtouse="textfielderr";     break;
                    case "position":     masktouse="textfieldmask";         errtouse="textfielderr";     break;
                    case "description":     masktouse="textfieldmask";         errtouse="textfielderr";     break;
                    case "phone":         masktouse="phonemask";             errtouse="phoneerr";         break;
                    case "state":         masktouse="textfieldmask";         errtouse="stateerr";         break;
                    case "email":         masktouse="emailmask";             errtouse="emailerr";         break;
                    case "date":         masktouse="textfieldmask";         errtouse="passworderr";     break;
                    case "verpassword": masktouse="passwordmask";         errtouse="passworderr";     mustmatch="password";         break;
                }
                // Check that the element is a required field before validating against it.
                if($(obj).parents("label").hasClass("required") && masktouse) {
                    // Set up a quick way of accessing the object we're validating
                    pointer = $(obj);
                    // Test the value of the field against the Regular Expression
                    if (mask[masktouse].test(pointer.val())) {
                        // The field validated successfully!

                        // Check to see if the field needs to match another field in the form
                        if (mustmatch) {
                            // It does need to match, so grab the object it needs to match
                            matchobj = $("#"+mustmatch);
                            if (matchobj.val()!='' && matchobj.val()!=pointer.val()) {
                                // The fields don't match, so report an error on both of them
                                reportErr(obj,errmsg["matcherr"]);
                                reportErr(matchobj,errmsg["matcherr"]);
                            }
                            else {
                                // Either the fields match, or the other field hasn't been completed yet
                                // If the other field has been completed, call the isGood function to clear any error message showing
                                if (matchobj.val()!='') { isGood(matchobj);}
                                return true;
                            }
                        }
                        else {
                            // No match is required, so return true - validation passed!
                            return true;
                        }
                    }
                    else {
                        // The field failed to validate against the Regular Expression
                        reportErr(obj,errmsg[errtouse]);
                        return false;
                    }
                }
                else {
                    // This isn't a required field, so we won't validate it against anything
                    return true;
                }
            }

        </script>

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jQuery form validation question

jQuery form validation question

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rb

joe