Question

I am using a form that has a lot of validate rules and messages and I am using submitHandler to submit a AjaxSubmit then.

This is OK, if I want to send form on demand which I usually do. But on the same page I’d like to do a validation without submit when user first visits the page, so he can see where the errors are.

Is this possible without reentering all the validation rules and messages again?

Now I am using like:

 var v = $("#form").validate({
        errorClass: "dmxError",
        rules: {
            my rules....
        },
        messages: {
            my messages
        },

        submitHandler: function(form) {
            $(form).ajaxSubmit(options);


        }
    });

I also have options for ajax which I think are not relevant for what I try to acomplish now 😉

How do I call validate with same data without submit when the page is loaded?

Answer 1

I don’t mean to be rude to the one who helped me, but I think I may found a better solution.

I used: $(“#form”).valid() and this seems to trigger validation on load without submit. Because if everything is OK I see form is not submitted because there is no “submitted” response that I have, so I have validated it without submit.