Adding jQuery validator rules to dynamically created elements in ASP

Question

I\'ve got some dynamically inserted form fields on a page in an MVC3 project. Normally we would add the jQuery validation server-side, but in this case we can\'t (multiple

Answer 1

I think you had something more simple wrong - like your find('.date') wasn't actually finding anything. Because otherwise, your code looks quite reasonable to me. Here is an example of it working as you expected: http://jsfiddle.net/ryleyb/LNjtd/

I was able to validate the code correctly with this:

$('form fieldset')
    .append('
New Field:  * Also required')
    .find('input[name="newField"]').rules('add', {
      required: true,
      messages: {
        required: 'New field is required'
      }
    }
);​