jQuery Validate - Enable validation for hidden fields

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In the new version of jQuery validation plugin 1 9 by default validation of hidden fields ignored  I m using CKEditor for textarea input field and it hides the field and replace it with iframe  The field is there  but validation disabled for hidden fields  With validation plugin version 1 8 1 everything works as expected   So my question is how to enable validation for hidden fields with v1 9 validation plugin   This setting doesn t work       validator setDefaults   ignore

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Just find the text ignore    hidden  in your jquery validation file and comment it  After comment this it will never loss any hidden elements to validate     Thanks

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So I m going to go a bit deeper in to why this doesn t work because I m the kind of person that can t sleep at night without knowing haha   I m using jQuery validate 1 10 and Microsoft jQuery Unobtrusive Validation 2 0 20710 0 which was published on 1 29 2013   I started by searching for the setDefaults method in jQuery Validate and found it on line 261 of the unminified file   All this function really does is merge your json settings in to the existing   validator defaults which are initialized with the ignore property being set to   hidden  along with the other defaults defined in jQuery Validate   So at this point we ve overridden ignore   Now let s see where this defaults property is being referenced at   When I traced through the code to see where   validator defaults is being referenced   I noticed that is was only being used by the constructor for a form validator  line 170 in jQuery validate unminified file      constructor for validator   validator   function  options  form         this settings     extend  true        validator defaults  options        this currentForm   form      this init         At this point a validator will merge any default settings that were set and attach it to the form validator   When you look at the code that is doing the validating  highlighting  unhighlighting  etc they all use the validator settings object to pull the ignore property   So we need to make sure if we are to set the ignore with the setDefaults method then it has to occur before the    form   validate   is called   If you re using Asp net MVC and the unobtrusive plugin  then you ll realize after looking at the javascript that validate is called in document ready   I ve also called my setDefaults in the document ready block which is going to execute after the scripts  jquery validate and unobtrusive because I ve defined those scripts in the html before the one that has the call in it   So my call obviously had no impact on the default functionality of skipping hidden elements during validation   There is a couple of options here   Option 1 - You could as Juan Mellado pointed out have the call outside of the document ready which would execute as soon as the script has been loaded  I m not sure about the timing of this since browsers are now capable of doing parallel script loading   If I m just being over cautious then please correct me   Also  there s probably ways around this but for my needs I did not go down this path   Option 2a - The safe bet in my eyes is to just replace the   validator setDefaults   ignore         inside of the document ready event with    form   data  validator   settings ignore         This will modify the ignore property that is actually used by jQuery validate when doing each validation on your elements for the given form   Options 2b - After looking in to the code a bit more you could also use    form   validate   settings ignore       as a way of setting the ignore property   The reason is that when looking at the validate function it checks to see if a validator object has already been stored for the form element via the   data   function   If it finds a validator object stored with the form element then it just returns the validator object instead of creating another one

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Make sure to put      validator setDefaults   ignore           NOT inside   document  ready

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This worked for me within an ASP NET site  To enable validation on some hidden fields use this code     form   data  validator   settings ignore     hidden not  myitem     To enable validation for all elements of form use this one        form   data  validator   settings ignore        Note that use them within   document  ready function

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This worked for me  within an ASP NET MVC3 site where I d left the framework to setup unobtrusive validation etc   in case it s useful to anyone      form   data  validator   settings ignore

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The validation was working for me on form submission  but it wasn t doing the reactive event driven validation on input to the chosen select lists   To fix this I added the following to manually trigger the jquery validation event that gets added by the library       chosen-select   each function         this  chosen   on  change   function           this  parents   form-group   find  select form-control   trigger  focusout validate                jquery validate will now add the  valid class to the underlying select list   Caveat  This does require a consistent html pattern for your form inputs  In my case  each input filed is wrapped in a div form-group  and each input has  form-control

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The plugin s author says you should use  square brackets without the quotes       http   bassistance de 2011 10 07 release-validation-plugin-1-9-0      Release  Validation Plugin 1 9 0        Another change should make the setup of forms with hidden elements   easier  these are now ignored by default  option    ignore    has       hidden    now as default   In theory  this could break an existing   setup  In the unlikely case that it actually does  you can fix it by   setting the ignore-option to           square brackets without the   quotes      To change this setting for all forms     validator setDefaults        ignore             any other default options and or rules        It is not required that  setDefaults   be within the document ready function   OR for one specific form     document  ready function              myform   validate           ignore                 any other options and or rules                  EDIT   See this answer for how to enable validation on some hidden fields but still ignore others     EDIT 2   Before leaving comments that  this does not work   keep in mind that the OP is simply asking about the jQuery Validate plugin and his question has nothing to do with how ASP NET  MVC  or any other Microsoft framework can alter this plugin s normal expected behavior   If you re using a Microsoft framework  the default functioning of the jQuery Validate plugin is over-written by Microsoft s unobtrusive-validation plugin   If you re struggling with the unobtrusive-validation plugin  then please refer to this answer instead   https   stackoverflow com a 11053251 594235

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This is working for me   jQuery   form name   validate   settings ignore

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Just added ignore     in the specific page for the specific form  this solution worked for me        form name   validate           ignore              onkeyup  false          rules                                         highlight false

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