jQuery Validate (Date Range)

Question

Im using the jQuery validate plugin and was wondering if there was a way to validate if the date entered into a field was a date like yyyy-mm-dd AND the the date falls betwe

Answer 1

Made a couple small corrections in Connor's code.

The resulting working code is:

$.validator.addMethod('daterange', function(value, element, arg) {
    if (this.optional(element) && !value) {
        return true;
    }

    var startDate = Date.parse(arg[0]),
        endDate = Date.parse(arg[1]),
        enteredDate = Date.parse(value);

    if (isNaN(enteredDate)) {
        return false;
    }

    return ( (isNaN(startDate) || (startDate <= enteredDate)) &&
             (isNaN(endDate) || (enteredDate <= endDate)));


   }, $.validator.format("Please specify a date between {0} and {1}."));

Then use it like this:

$("#some_date_input").rules("add",{daterange:['01/31/2001','01/31/2020']});