Question

I have html like this:

                <form action="" id="emailFillOutForm">
                <div class="txt-fld">
                    <label for="repName">Rep. Name</label>
                    <input id="repName" type="text" disabled="disabled" value="John Smith" class="disabled" /> <!-- This value will come from login, fake it for now -->
                    <label for="financedAmount" style="padding-left: 15px;">Financed Amount</label>
                    <input id="financedAmount" type="text" disabled="disabled" class="disabled" />
                </div>
                <div class="txt-fld">
                    <label for="doctorName">Doctor Name</label>
                    <input id="doctorName" type="text" class="required"/>
                    <label for="emailAddress" style="padding-left: 15px;">Email address</label>
                    <input id="emailAddress" type="text" class="required email"/>
                </div>
                <div class="txt-fld">
                    <label>Equipment</label>
                    <select name="equipment" class="required">
                        <option value="Equipment1" selected="selected">Equipment1</option>
                        <option value="Equipment2">Equipment2</option>
                    </select>
                </div>
                <div class="btn-fld">
                    <button type="submit" value="submit">Submit &raquo;</button>
                </div>
             </form>

Javascript as follows:

    // Validate submit form with the jQuery validation library
        $("#emailFillOutForm").validate({
            errorPlacement: function (error, element) {
                error.appendTo($(element.parent("div")));
            },
            rules: {
                emailAddress: {
                    required: true,
                    email: true
                }
            }
        });

jquery.validate.min.js library v. 1.9
jquery-1.7.2.min

For some reason, “submitting” the form only validates the name input, to get the email validated I have to tab over it.

Answer 1

It seems that all you need to add is name attribute with identical value as id to your inputs.

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<input id="doctorName" name"doctorName" type="text" class="required"/>

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<input id="emailAddress" name="emailAddress" type="text" class="required email"/>

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