Is There A way to Validate Individual Fields in Jquery, not the Whole Form?

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I have a form. I applied tabs to it. I have next and previous links to navigate through the tabs. I want to validate certain fields on Tab 1, which wen not validated does not allow the user to navigate to the next tab. I am working with only one form that is divided among the tabs. The problem is the Jquery Validation Plugin validates the form on submit. I want to validate individual fields that on click to the Next link. Is there a way to do that?

Accepted Answer

I just saw it on the validation documentation. I almost overlooked it. You do it with

```
$('#myform').validate().element('#myfield_in_myform');
```

whew...

Is There A way to Validate Individual Fields in Jquery, not the Whole Form?

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