Jquery Validation Plugin digits that aren't required not working

Question

I'm trying to setup a "digit" field using the jQuery Validation plugin

The problem is I don't want the digit field to be required, I just want to validate it as digits only, if someone does enter anything into it.

Here is my code, if I remove the "required: true," part, the field no longer throws up an error if I enter text into it and the form gets passed.

$('.js-validate-form').validate({
  rules: {
      phoneNumber: {
      digits: true
    }
  }
});

And my HTML

<input type="number" name="phone" id="phone" placeholder="Phone (include area code)" value=""/>

Thanks in advance for any help!

Sparky · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-04 17:31:40Z

3

This only seems to be a problem with input type="number" fields. It also only works as long as your field name matches your rule declaration, in this case, phoneNumber...

<input type="text" name="phoneNumber" id="phone" placeholder="Phone (include area code)" value=""/>

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/L4crh/

However, there are various phone number rules you can use that are already included in this plugin as part of the additional-methods.js file

DEMO 2: http://jsfiddle.net/L4crh/1/

EDIT:

The type="number" bug has reportedly been resolved as of jQuery Validate version 1.13.

https://github.com/jzaefferer/jquery-validation/releases/tag/1.13.0

edited Jul 4, 2014 at 17:31

answered Dec 11, 2013 at 15:52

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Desmond Over a year ago

That works perfectly, thanks heaps for your help Sparky! I didn't know that "additional methods" file existed either, will be sure to use that. Thanks again!

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