Question

I’ve seen examples of using jquery.validate to validate form fields but I have a situation where I have an email address as a string in an object and thought it would be nice to leverage the code in jquery.validate to test it.

Is there any way to do something like:

var isEmail = $.validate.email("[e-mail]");

using the plugin?

Answer 1

If all you want is a function to strings, use the regex from validation plugin for “email” and create a function around it:

Example: http://jsfiddle.net/QuvSh/