fancybox and jquery form validation - jquery-validate

Question

Have problem with fancybox and jquery validate plugin when form is in fancybox container.
For examle (inline):
html:
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){ $.fancybox('
<form class="myform">
<input type="text" name="email" class="email" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" />
</form>
');
})
</script>
js file:
$(".myform").validate(
{
rules: {
email: "required",
email: "email"
}
}
);
How to make jquery validation pluging to work in fancybox?

Answer 1

Do two things...
Use the afterLoad FancyBox callback function to initialize .validate() immediately after the form is loaded.
Put the content for FancyBox in a hidden div instead of in your jQuery. It's cleaner.
Note: You may want to reconsider using email for the name attribute. It has potential to cause great confusion since the rule is also called email.
HTML:
<a id="test" href="#inline">Test</a>
<div style="display:none" id="inline">
<form class="myform">
<input type="text" name="email" class="email" />
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" />
</form>
</div>
jQuery:
$(document).ready(function () {
$('#test').fancybox({
afterLoad: function() {
$('.myform').validate({
// rules and options for validate plugin,
rules: {
email: { // "email" is name of the field
required: true,
email: true // "email" is name of the rule
}
}
});
}
});
});
Working DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/ZMEEW/