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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 phone numbers from none to as many as required. A button adds another number.

So I thought I'd put together a basic example and followed the concept from the accepted answer in the following link:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/931687/using-jquery-validate-plugin-to-validate-multiple-form-fields-with-identical-name

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"&gt;
<html>
<head>
  <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  <script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/lib/jquery.delegate.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://dev.jquery.com/view/trunk/plugins/validate/jquery.validate.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;


<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>
A: 

This: $("field").each(function(){
Should be: $("[name=field]").each(function(){

Also your IDs should be unique, you'll get unpredictable behavior when this isn't true. Also, you should move the rule adding inside the document.ready, like this (this is now all your script):

$(function(){
  $("#myform").validate();
  $("[name=field]").each(function(){
     $(this).rules("add", {
       required: true,
       email: true,
       messages: {
         required: "Specify a valid email"
       }
     });   
   });
});
Nick Craver