jQuery validate - how do I ignore letter case?

Question

Probably a goofy question, but I can\'t seem to find anything in google land. I simply need one of my methods to ignore the case of the entered field. I am doing a city name mat

Answer 1

The easiest way to get a case-insensitive match is to convert both values to uppercase and then compare (uppercase because in certain cultures/languages the upper- to lowercase conversion can change a character!).

So make the check

value.toUpperCase() == "Atlanta".toUpperCase()