While validating one of the many forms, I came accross a situation where a form field’s presence was dependent on another DOM element, depends property of jquery-validate plugin came to resue.

Got some hidden fields in a form which needs validation(at some later point say, when made visible)? Lets learn how to remove or add validation rules dynamically using jQuery Validate plugin.

I generally use jquery-validate plugin for frontend validations. It comes with handful of validator methods. Sometimes we need custom validations. Lets see how to add one.