Question

For a select input like this:

<select id="sn" name="sn_arvo">
    <option value="">Valitse nopeus</option>
    <option value="0">10</option>
    <option value="1">20</option>
    <option value="2">30</option>
</select>

if I add class="required" in the select node, validation works fine. But if I add it to rules:

$("#vikaformi").validate({
    debug: true,
rules: {
        sn: {
            required: true
        }

the select is not validated. Rules for text inputs for example are working. I’m using validate 1.9.

Answer 1

Shouldnt you use sn_arvo instead?

Key/value pairs defining custom rules. Key is the name of an element

sn_arvo: {
            required: true
        }

http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/validate#toptions