Jquery Validation Plugin - can you enable “eager” validation from the options?

Question

I\'m using the Jquery Validation plugin on a project.

By default, the plugin validates input when the submit button is clicked. The behavior is \"lazy\" in order to

Answer 1

For me adding the onfocusout was also not working. I have tried to add it via setDefaults like suggested by KyleMit and via $('#myform').validate.

The solution that I finally have used is to add an extra event on keyup, blur and change for the different fields of my form. I have used a class instead of an id to keep the logic generic.

$('body').on('keyup blur change', '.tovalidate input, .tovalidate select, .tovalidate textarea', function () { 
        $('.tovalidate').validate().checkForm(); 
});