How do I remove jQuery validation from a form?

Question

I\'m using the jQuery validation plugin to validate a form, and I\'d like to remove the validation and submit the form if a certain link is clicked.

I am submitting

Answer 1

I recently upgraded to 1.5.5 of Jörn's validator script and the removeValidator function has been deprecated.

...
jQuery.extend(
          jQuery.fn, 
          {
          removeValidator: function(){
              this.unbind();
              jQuery.removeData(this[0], 'validator'); 
          }
...

Answer 2

I have found none of the other ways helpful if you wanted to toggle on/off your forms validation (e.g. different validation for payment types...)

What I have had to do (this is not an nice fix but it does work)

Set up your validation:

jQuery('#form').validate();

Disabling the form:

jQuery('#form').validate().currentForm = '';

Enabling the form again:

jQuery('#form').validate().currentForm = jQuery('#form')[0];

Answer 3

You can remove events of nodes with unbind:

jQuery('form#listing').unbind('submit'); // remove all submit handlers of the form

What you are probably looking for is that the validation plugin can also unassign itself from the submit event:

jQuery('form#listing').validate({
   onsubmit : false
});

For both of these you should be able to follow up with a call to .submit() to submit the form:

jQuery('form#listing').unbind('submit').submit();

Answer 4

This seems to work for me now:

var form = $('#my_form_id').get(0);
$(form).removeData('validate');

Answer 5

You can add a css class of cancel to an element (button, input) so that it skips the validation

Answer 6

var form = $('#my_form_id').get(0);
$.removeData(form,'validator');

Is really working.