Using jquery validate with multiple fields of the same name
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I am trying to get jquery validate to work on multiple fields. Reason being I have dynamically generated fields added and they are simply a list of numbers.
So I thought I'd put together a basic example and followed the concept from the accepted answer in the following link:
However, it's not doing anything useful. Why is it not working?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/lib/jquery.delegate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<script>
$("#submit").click(function(){
$("field").each(function(){
$(this).rules("add", {
required: true,
email: true,
messages: {
required: "Specify a valid email"
}
});
})
});
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#myform").validate();
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="myform">
<label for="field">Required, email: </label>
<input class="left" id="field" name="field" />
<input class="left" id="field" name="field" />
<input class="left" id="field" name="field" />
<input class="left" id="field" name="field" />
<br/>
<input type="submit" value="Validate!" id="submit" name="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
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