jQuery validation plugin not validating fields that are not displayed

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I have found this question but it was written in 2009, presumably since then they have decided to ignore hidden fields by default...anyone know how I can validate my hidden fields?

I have a custom invalidHandler to deal with the result and was seeing some strange behaviour, I now realise this is because some of my fields are hidden (using display:none). I have a tabbed form, hence some elements being hidden FYI.

Thanks in advance.

a small hack would be to call the validation before the tab change, if there are errors don't let the user change the tab. — Poelinca Dorin
– Poelinca Dorin, Commented Jan 4, 2012 at 10:17

Ed . · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-04 10:31:34Z

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Found the answer...

I started looking at the validator plugin code and came across this:

$.extend($.validator, {
defaults: {
messages: {},
groups: {},
rules: {},
errorClass: "error",
validClass: "valid",
errorElement: "label",
focusInvalid: true,
errorContainer: $( [] ),
errorLabelContainer: $( [] ),
onsubmit: true,
ignore: ":hidden", 
...

So I set the option 'ignore' to an empty string and it works. I guess the documentation should be updated because it doesn't state that there is a default for ignore.

Thanks anyway.

answered Jan 4, 2012 at 10:31

Ed .

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