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title: "jQuery: how to include validation in the ajaxForm function?"  
description: "jQuery: how to include validation in the ajaxForm function?"  
author: "Anonymous User"  
published: 2013-03-11  
updated: 2013-03-11  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/642/jquery-how-to-include-validation-in-the-ajaxform-function  
category: "jquery"  
tags: ["jquery"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# jQuery: how to include validation in the ajaxForm function?

Hi Everyone!

I have a form which needs to be validates and then submitted with ajaxForm (the form contains [image](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/23551/an-investigate-distinctive-seafood-restaurant-for-your-image-stamp-character) and [file data](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/397/how-to-import-csv-file-data-in-sql-server-table), so [submission](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/156176/what-is-a-directory-submission) with .serialize() won't

work). The following are the details:

HTML:

<form id="myForm" [action](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/155752/what-is-action-result-with-its-types)="..." [method](https://www.mindstick.com/forum/166/webservice-method)="post" enctype="multipart/form-data">\
...\
<input type="file" name="image" /><br />\
<input type="file" name="file" /><br />\
...\
</form>\
jQuery:

$([document](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/328642/what-to-consider-while-choosing-a-software-documentation-tool)).ready([function](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/13001/multi-statement-table-valued-user-defined-function-in-sql-server)() {

$("#myForm").ajaxForm ({

beforeSubmit: function() {\
$("#myForm").validate({\
onkeyup:false,\
[rules](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/43901/blackjack-rules): {\
...\
},\
[messages](https://www.mindstick.com/news/4166/google-rolling-out-gemini-extensions-for-messages-whatsapp-and-spotify): {\
...\
},\
});\
},

[success](https://www.mindstick.com/articles/12957/best-tips-to-make-your-ghostwriting-experience-a-success): function(returnData) {\
$('#content').html(returnData);\
}

});

});

Thanks in advance.

## Replies

### Reply by AVADHESH PATEL

Hi Tanuj!\
You can validate in ajaxForm function as per following!\
$("#myForm").submit(function(e){ e.preventaDefault();\
var isValid=/* run your validation code that determines true or false*/\
if( isValid){ $(this).ajaxForm({/* plugin options*/}) }\
})


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