How can I enable jquery validation on readonly fields?

Question

Guys from http://jqueryvalidation.org/ just released version 1.13.1. Checking on their website i see this on the changelog:

CORE: * Ignore readonly as well as disabl

Answer 1

Thank you for you suggestion Panoptik, adding readonly on focusin, and then removing it on focusout was the cleanest way, million thanks! I answer myself in case anyone has the same problem. Hope it helps.

$(document).on("focusin", "#someid", function() {
   $(this).prop('readonly', true);  
});

$(document).on("focusout", "#someid", function() {
   $(this).prop('readonly', false); 
});