jQuery form validate not working

Question

I\'ve spent hours on this and I have no idea why this jquery validate() doesn\'t work. I finally broke it down to minimum and it still doesn\'t work. This is the actuall cod

Answer 1

.validate() doesn't actually perform the validation, it configures the form for validation.

If you change your submit link to a submit button , it will work as expected.

Another option is to call .valid() in your link click handler, which will trigger validation.

See this fiddle for a working example: http://jsfiddle.net/v5HQr/1/