Jquery Validation Plugin digits that aren't required not working

Question

I\'m trying to setup a \"digit\" field using the jQuery Validation plugin

The problem is I don\'t want the digit field to be required, I just want to validate it as

Answer 1

This only seems to be a problem with input type="number" fields. It also only works as long as your field name matches your rule declaration, in this case, phoneNumber...

<input type="text" name="phoneNumber" id="phone" placeholder="Phone (include area code)" value=""/>

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/L4crh/

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However, there are various phone number rules you can use that are already included in this plugin as part of the additional-methods.js file

DEMO 2: http://jsfiddle.net/L4crh/1/

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EDIT:

The type="number" bug has reportedly been resolved as of jQuery Validate version 1.13.

https://github.com/jzaefferer/jquery-validation/releases/tag/1.13.0