jQuery Validate (Date Range)

Question

Im using the jQuery validate plugin and was wondering if there was a way to validate if the date entered into a field was a date like yyyy-mm-dd AND the the date falls betwe

Answer 1

I've never used the validation plugin, but a look through the API suggests that something like this might work:

$.validator.addMethod('daterange', function(value, element) {
    if (this.optional(element)) {
        return true;
    }

    var startDate = Date.parse('2010-11-29'),
        endDate = Date.parse('2010-12-15'),
        enteredDate = Date.parse(value);

    if (isNan(enteredDate)) {
        return false;
    }

    return ((startDate <= enteredDate) && (enteredDate <= endDate));
});

You would then, I think, need to add the daterange class the the appropriate element.