jQuery validate: How to add a rule for regular expression validation?

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Thanks to the answer of redsquare I added a method like this:

$.validator.addMethod(
  "regex",
  function(value, element, regexp) {
    var re = new RegExp(regexp);
    return this.optional(element) || re.test(value);
  },
  "Please check your input."
);

Now all you need to do to validate against any regex is this:

$("#Textbox").rules("add", { regex: "^[a-zA-Z'.\\s]{1,40}$" })

Additionally, it looks like there is a file called additional-methods.js that contains the method “pattern”, which can be a RegExp when created using the method without quotes.

Edit

The pattern function is now the preferred way to do this, making the example:

$("#Textbox").rules("add", { pattern: "^[a-zA-Z'.\\s]{1,40}$" })

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