It still doesn't validate when the field is empty. Yes, I removed "
required: true, " in
$("#myform").validate({
rules: {
field: {
required: true,
email: true
}
}
});
The code is exactly the same just without the required: true, line as
belows.
And if I modified the <input id="field" name="field" /> to <input
class="left" id="field" name="field" onblur=alert($("#field").valid
()) /> It alerts 0 when it's empty, 0 when it's invalid email, and 1
when it's valid email address. I'm expecting 1 when field is empty.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html>
<head>
<script src="
http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="
http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/lib/jquery.delegate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="
http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery.validator.setDefaults({
debug: true,
success: "valid"
});;
</script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#myform").validate({
rules: {
field: {
email: true
}
}
});
});
</script>
<style>#field { margin-left: .5em; float: left; }
#field, label { float: left; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-
serif; font-size: small; }
br { clear: both; }
input { border: 1px solid black; margin-bottom: .5em; }
input.error { border: 1px solid red; }
label.error {
background: url('
http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/demo/images/unchecked.gif') no-repeat;
padding-left: 16px;
margin-left: .3em;
}
label.valid {
background: url('
http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/demo/images/checked.gif') no-repeat;
display: block;
width: 16px;
height: 16px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<form id="myform">
<label for="field">Required, email: </label>
<input class="left" id="field" name="field" />
<br/>
<input type="submit" value="Validate!" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
