ASP.NET MVC validation attributes and Jquery

Question

I have mvc attributes on fields that validate on submit. Although these attributes are on these fields, I want to override their validation if I click a SaveDraft button. Right now I try to disable validation of the field using jquery rules but the mvc attributes seem to override the rules. How can I make the MVC attributes ignore validation if I click a different button? Here is an example of what I want to do onClick but it does not work.

 $(".btnsave").click(function () {
        $('#WizForm').validate(

        {
            rules:
        {
            Title: false,
            Description: false  //dont validate this field onclick

        },
          }).Form();
});

Answer 1

You can use following to remove all validation rules from an element

$('#Password').rules('remove')

To remove specific rule use

$('#Password').rules('remove', 'required')

And to add rule

$("#Password").rules("add", { minlength: 2 });

Finally to check current rules

$('#Password').rules()

Note If your selector returns more than one element only the first element is used by rules method

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Also make sure that you have latest version. more people got in trouble with IE and jQuery-validation-1.8