Prevent focus on field when it fails validation

Question

I often use this jQuery validation plugin to validate forms and it works great. Really pleased with it, but when you press Submit on a form it automatically puts focus on th

Answer 1

1. Go to your jQuery validate file file (http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/jquery.validate.js)
2. Use Control and F to find
3. Remove .focus() on line 431.

Answer 2

$('#frmTableDate').validationEngine({ focusFirstField: false });

in case we are using Validation Engine plugin to validate

Answer 3

Use the focusInvalid option and set it to false :

$("#abc").validate({
  focusInvalid: false
});

Working example here and Documentation here (options tab)

Answer 4

$("#myform").validate({
onfocusout: false,
invalidHandler: function(form, validator) {
    var errors = validator.numberOfInvalids();
    if (errors) {                    
        validator.errorList[0].element.focus();
    }
} 
});