[jQuery] [validate] Validate elements without actual form
Does anyone know if there's a way to validate a set of elements (ie
within a div) without having to pre-validate the actual form to start
with?
Problem I have is that I have a page long form and for one part of it
(one of the blocks as a div), I am presenting as a dialog (using
blockui however also tried using UI's dialog) and want to validate
only that portion onsubmit (of the dialog).
However it seems that if the pre-validated form is outside the dialog/
modal box, I get all sorts of javascript errors for the validate
script?
So far I've spent almost a day trying to work this out and only
outcome I have is to wrap the dialog/modal in a temp form tags,
validate it and then remove the prepended form tags and submit.
Reason I need to keep the single page form is that within the modal
dialog, I also want a number of elements to be included in the $POST
that are outside the dialog itself.
If anyone can help, I'll be appreciative.
Cheers,
Max