jQuery validate rule ONLY AT SUBMIT

Question

Say i have a form that looks up city, state locations. if the user enters an incorrect city, state, i want the form to be able to check the database against the users input

Answer 1

Here's an idea that might work: separately bind the keyup function for your field that you don't want the keyup event to be validated on, and have it not bubble:

$('#citystateID').bind('keyup',function(){
   return false; 
});

I couldn't figure out how to bind the validator specific events (focusin and focusout), so it would still run validations whenever focus left your "citystate" input, but it's closer to what you wanted?

I briefly tested this here: http://jsfiddle.net/svUdp/ seemed to work alright (watch your console to see what happens - lots of events being triggered, but not so many validates).