Can JQuery.Validate plugin prevent submission of an Ajax form

Question

I am using the JQuery form plugin (http://malsup.com/jquery/form/) to handle the ajax submission of a form. I also have JQuery.Validate (http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validatio

Answer 1

Just as a first pass, I'm wondering why the line

$("form").validate({

doesn't refer to $("searchform"). I haven't looked this up, or tried it, but that just seems to be a mismatch. Wouldn't you want to call validate on the appropriate form?

Anyway, if this is completely wrong, then the error isn't immediately obvious. :)