Manual form validation in MVC 3 and JQuery

Question

I want to be able to trigger form validation on the client side when the user selects the \"GO\" button. Currently when the \"GO\" button is selected it does not validate th

Answer 1

Not sure if you figured this out yet, but I ran into the same thing in IE with $("#myForm").submit. Use live:

$("#myForm").live('submit', function (e) {
    var val = $('#myForm').validate(); //<--added the semi-colon
    val.showErrors();
    alert(val.valid());


    e.preventDefault();
});