Thanks for having a look - i followed those demos those demos and been through the docs - still my form isnt validating or erroring ...
The details are the following (this is all i have in the head section) - what am i missing??? <script> $(document).ready(function() { $("#um-form").validate({ rules: { f-name: "required", f-lastname: "required", f-address: "required", f-city: "required", f-postcode: "required", f-country: "required", mail-contact { required: "#f-mail:checked" email: true }, tel-contact { required: "f-tel:checked" }, mob-contact { required: "f-mob:checked" }, }, messages: { f-name: "[required]", f-lastname: "[required]", f-address: "[required]", f-city: "[required]", f-postcode: "[required]", f-country: "[required]", } }); }); </script>