Question

When you refresh/reload a page or use the back button, Firefox is kind enough to repopulate your inputs with what was entered before you navigated away.

Though this is a nice feature it does not trigger my jquery validation and the unsaved changes warning I add to my pages.

Is there a way to either disable this feature in Firefox (without renaming every control every time) or capture the firefox events?

Answer 1

After your .validate() call in document.ready, also call .valid() once to trigger validation as well, like this:

$(function() {
  $('#myForm').validate({ /* options here */ });
  $('#myForm').valid();
});