Hi

I'm new to jquery and struggling with my attempt to use the form plugin ( http://malsup.com/jquery/form/) and the validate plugin ( http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation) together on the same form.

I've got jquery form working perfectly, but have no idea what code to add to include validate on the same form.

Here's my script:

1. <script type="text/javascript" src="/js/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script> 
2. <script type="text/javascript" src="/jquery.form.js"></script> 
3. <script type="text/javascript" src="/jquery.validate.js"></script> 
4.  
5.     <script type="text/javascript"> 
6.       
7. $(document).ready(function() { 
8.   $('.spinner').hide();
9.     var options = { 
10.         target:        '#output1',   // target element(s) to be updated with server response 
11. beforeSubmit:  showRequest,  // pre-submit callback       
12. success:       showResponse  // post-submit callback 
13.  
14.     }; 
15.  
16.   $('#myform').ajaxForm(options); 
17. }); 
18.  
19. function showRequest(formData, jqForm, options) { 
20.     var queryString = $.param(formData); 
21.  
22.   $('#test_null_submit').hide();
23.         $('.sub_spinner').show();
24.     return true; 
25. } 
26.  
27. function showResponse(responseText, statusText)  { 
28.         $('.spinner').hide();
29.         $('#pfh').hide();
30. } 
31.     </script> 

and a part of my form:

1. <form class="contrib" name="contact" id="myform" method="post" action="process_form.asp">
2. <fieldset>
3. 
   
4. <label for="company" id="company_label">Company name *</label>
5. <input type="text" name="company" id="company" class="input3 required" size="25" />
6. 
   
7. <label for="address1" id="address1_label">Address</label>
8. <input type="text" name="address1" id="address1" class="input3" size="25" />
9. 
   
10. <input type="submit" name="submit" class="button" value="Submit" />
11. 
    
12. </fieldset>
13. </form>

The idea is to use the validate plugin to only submit if a company name is added.  I'm guessing I need to add something to the ShowRequest" function which is called BeforeSubmit - but I can't work out what to do.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks