Question

I am trying to achieve jQuery validation. The scenario is if a field is empty it will give a required message error. If not empty and input is invalid it will give a specific error message for each field. With my current code I am getting this error:

Uncaught TypeError: Object [object Object] has no method ‘val’

Any hints for solving this? Here is the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/PDjwZ/4/

if (!/^[a-zA-Z]+$/.test(name.val()) && name.val() != emptyerror) {
    name.addClass("needsfilled");
    name.val(nameerror);
}

Answer 1

Edited (after view fiddle):

It seems that you aren’t using var when declaring your variables. I’ve edited the fiddle to change name = $("#name") to var name = $("#name"). Seems like the variable name is conflicting with some other (global) variable.