The problem was that if a validation error had been triggered and you then proceeded to set a date the error message was not cleared unless you again clicked in and out of the field (or just ignored the error and carried on, but this is not helpful to the end user!). To overcome this I added ‘change’ to the bind parameters in jquery.validate.js line 46.

Before: jQuery(this).bind(‘focus keypress’, function(){
After: jQuery(this).bind(‘focus keypress change’, function(){

I have not tested all of the features of the validate script to see if this causes any problems elsewhere but thought I would post in case it helps anyone else as it solves the problem for me.

GeekTantra, hope you don’t mind my tinkering with your code.

1. When i add a form inside the , how do you stop the form from going away because sometimes, the drop just vanish by accidentally mouse hover out ? how do you make the drop NOT disappear if someone has already typed in a value, lets say half way typing his username at a username input text field?

1. When i add a form inside the , how do you stop the form from going away because sometimes, the drop just vanish by accidentally mouse hover out ? how do you make the drop disappear if it sense someone has already type a value , for instance half way typing his username at a username input text field?

2. how do you slow down the animation?

Thanks!!

Sorry if I’m missing something blindingly obvious

Fred