How to perform validation on submit only - jQuery Validation plugin

Question

I want the jQuery Validate plugin to only display the validation messages only upon form submit and not when the focus from a input field is lost. How do Ii achieve this?

Answer 1

You need to disable all three handlers if you wish to receive absolutely no errors before submission and you can do validation like this:

$('#commentForm').validate({
    onfocusout: false,
    onkeyup: false,
    onclick: false
})

Answer 2

You have to change the default option for onfocusout

$(".selector").validate({
   onfocusout: false
})

More options to enable or disable are listed here - http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/validate#toptions