Validate a form on Click event with validator jQuery

Question

I am using jQuery validate for validate an input. My code:

 $('#button').click( function() {       
    $("#form").validate({              
        rules: {
            phone: {
                required: true,
                number: true,
                rangelength: [7, 14]
            }
        }
    }); 
});

And the HTML:

<form id="form" name="form" method="post" action="">
 <input id="phone" name="phone" class="required" type="text" />
 <div class="button" id="send_b">Send</div>
 </form>

This code is not working. If I add this line of jQuery

$("#form").submit();  

inside the click event it works. But I don't want to submit the form so I want just to make the validation on click.

Does anyone know how to do this?

Answer 1

Just add .form() to manually trigger the validation immediately (the default behavior waits for a submit event):

$('#button').click( function() {       
  $("#form").validate({              
    rules: {
      phone: {
        required: true,
        number: true,
        rangelength: [7, 14]
      }
    }
  }).form(); 
});