Confirm Password with jQuery Validate

Solution 1:

Remove the required: true rule.

Demo: Fiddle

jQuery('.validatedForm').validate({
            rules : {
                password : {
                    minlength : 5
                },
                password_confirm : {
                    minlength : 5,
                    equalTo : "#password"
                }
            }

Solution 2:

Just a quick chime in here to hopefully help others... Especially with the newer version (since this is 2 years old)...

Instead of having some static fields defined in JS, you can also use the data-rule-* attributes. You can use built-in rules as well as custom rules.

See http://jqueryvalidation.org/documentation/#link-list-of-built-in-validation-methods for built-in rules.

Example:

<p><label>Email: <input type="text" name="email" id="email" data-rule-email="true" required></label></p>
<p><label>Confirm Email: <input type="text" name="email" id="email_confirm" data-rule-email="true" data-rule-equalTo="#email" required></label></p>

Note the data-rule-* attributes.

Solution 3:

It works if id value and name value are different:

<input type="password" class="form-control"name="password" id="mainpassword">
password: {     required: true,     } , 
cpassword: {required: true, equalTo: '#mainpassword' },

Solution 4:

jQuery('.validatedForm').validate({
        rules : {
            password : {
                minlength : 5
            },
            password_confirm : {
                minlength : 5,
                equalTo : '[name="password"]'
            }
        }

In general, you will not use id="password" like this. So, you can use [name="password"] instead of "#password"

Solution 5:

I'm implementing it in Play Framework and for me it worked like this:

1) Notice that I used data-rule-equalTo in input tag for the id inputPassword1. The code section of userform in my Modal:

<div class="form-group">
    <label for="pass1">@Messages("authentication.password")</label>
    <input class="form-control required" id="inputPassword1" placeholder="@Messages("authentication.password")" type="password" name="password" maxlength=10 minlength=5>
</div>
<div class="form-group">
    <label for="pass2">@Messages("authentication.password2")</label>
    <input class="form-control required" data-rule-equalTo="#inputPassword1" id="inputPassword2" placeholder="@Messages("authentication.password")" type="password" name="password2">
</div>

2)Since I used validator within a Modal

$(document).on("click", ".createUserModal", function () {
       $(this).find('#userform').validate({
           rules: {
               firstName: "required",
               lastName: "required",
               nationalId: {
                   required: true,
                   digits:true
               },
               email: {
                   required: true,
                   email: true
               },
               optradio: "required",
               password :{
                   required: true,
                   minlength: 5
               },
               password2: {
                   required: true
               }
           },
           highlight: function (element) {
               $(element).parent().addClass('error')
           },
           unhighlight: function (element) {
               $(element).parent().removeClass('error')
           },
           onsubmit: true
       });

   });

Hope it helps someone :).