jQuery validation plugin accept only alphabetical characters

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I d like to use jQuery s validation plugin to validate a field that only accepts alphabetical characters  but there doesn t seem to be a defined rule for it  I ve searched google but I ve found nothing useful   Any ideas   Appreciate your help

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Both Nick and Adam s answers work really well    I d like to add a note if you want to allow latin characters like    and    as I wanted to do   jQuery validator addMethod  lettersonly   function value  element        return this optional element        a-z                                                     i test value       Letters and spaces only please

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Be careful   jQuery validator addMethod  lettersonly   function value  element     return this optional element        a-z        i test value       Letters and spaces only please        a-z       by adding the comma and quotation marks  you are allowing spaces  commas and quotation marks into the input box   For spaces   text  just do this   jQuery validator addMethod  lettersonly   function value  element     return this optional element        a-z     i test value       Letters and spaces only please       a-z   this allows spaces aswell as text only                                                                                 also the message  Letters and spaces only please  is not required  if you already have a message in messages    messages           firstname           required   Enter your first name           minlength  jQuery format  Enter at least  2  characters            maxlength jQuery format  First name too long more than  80  characters            lettersonly jQuery format  letters only mate                Adam

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Just a small addition to Nick s answer  which works great       If you want to allow spaces in between letters  for example    you may restrict to enter only letters in full name  but it should allow space as well - just list the space as below with a comma  And in the same way if you need to allow any other specific character   jQuery validator addMethod  lettersonly   function value  element     return this optional element        a-z        i test value       Letters and spaces only please

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AlphabetsOnly   keypress function  e            var regex   new RegExp    a-zA-Z s               var str   String fromCharCode  e charCode   e which   e charCode           if  regex test str                 return true                    else               e preventDefault                return false

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If you include the additional methods file  here s the current file for 1 7  http   ajax microsoft com ajax jquery validate 1 7 additional-methods js  You can use the lettersonly rule     The additional methods are part of the zip you download  you can always find the latest here   Here s an example      form   validate     rules        myField    lettersonly  true             It s worth noting  each additional method is independent  you can include that specific one  just place this before your  validate   call   jQuery validator addMethod  lettersonly   function value  element      return this optional element        a-z    i test value       Letters only please

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to allow letters ans spaces   jQuery validator addMethod  lettersonly   function value  element    return this optional element        a-z s    i test value       Only alphabetical characters         yourform   validate           rules                name field                    lettersonly  true

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