How to disable jquery validation on keyup and focusout for 1 specific html element when using the unobtrusive validation plugin?

TweeZz picture TweeZz · Jan 30, 2014 · Viewed 15.3k times · Source

By default, the jQuery validation plugin is attaching validation handlers for focusin, focusout and keyup events.

1 of our validations is making a (synchronous) request to retrieve some data. I want to have that validation triggered only when the form is being submitted and not while the user is typing.

I know this can be modified for the whole form, but that's not what I'm looking for.

Is there a way to dynamically disable keyup validation for 1 element?

Update 1:
I forgot to mention that I'm using unobtrusive validation. So I don't think the answer of @Mario Johnathan is not an option.

Update 2: I tried the following things ($element is the element on which I want to change the validation behavior):

  1. $element.validate({focusout: false, keyup: false});
  2. $element.keyup(function() { return false; });
  3. $element.off('keyup');
  4. $element.unbind('keyup');

Answer

Mink picture Mink · May 20, 2016

I myself was in the same scenario. Below is the code which I used for it.

    $.validator.setDefaults({
      onkeyup: function () {
        var originalKeyUp = $.validator.defaults.onkeyup;
        var customKeyUp =  function (element, event) {
          if ($("#your_element")[0] === element) {
            return false;
          }
          else {
            return originalKeyUp.call(this, element, event);
          }
        }

        return customKeyUp;
      }()
  });

Here what I have done is handle keyup events for that element so that validator doesn't do anything. For rest all elements the validator will kick into action. But the catch here is that particular element will have no validation on keyup at all.