Question

I have a textfield that needs validation and is placed next to the submit button as if to form one unique element visually. Something like this:

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 ^text part here          ^badly drawn arrow here (submit button)

now, if the password is not valid (less than 5 characters) I’ve set up the script to make the textfields border red. What I also need though due to this design is to add a class to the submit button too so I can make it’s border red also.

Any clues on how should I go about doing that?

EDIT: Or if there is a way to add a class to an ancestor element instead so I can go higher and include the submit button as well.

Answer 1

did it using the highlight and unhighlight properties.

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