Question

when user1 and user2 do not select anything from radio box the jquery validation triggers but removes the jquery hint from the ‘fav food’ textbox. how do i prevent this?

working example: http://jsfiddle.net/NevcG/1/

Answer 1

Its because of this code at the bottom:

It pretty obviously sets the value of input.hint to nothing on submit of a form. Remove this and it’ll work as you expect.

$('form').submit(function() {
  $('input.hint').val('');
  return true;
});