jQuery Watermarked input and validation
jquery, validation, watermark
Solution
Check out this blog post:
http://randomactsofcoding.blogspot.com/2008/10/starting-with-jquery-how-to-write.html
Tells you how to construct a custom validation rule for a field.
Problem
On a HTML page I have an inputbox that has a 'watermark' on it when it is empty. (eg: "enter text here..."). Kind of like this: http://digitalbush.com/projects/watermark-input-plugin/ - but custom written. The problem is that I can't figure out how to validate this field with the jQuery validation plugin (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/) so that it treats my watermark text as if the field was empty. I can't find an option in the jQuery validator to let me specify a custom rule for when a field is valid, is there one? I could find options that allow me to specify whether a field needs to be validated based on custom logic, but not how it should be validated. What am I missing?