Dependency mismatch with Jquery Validate plugin

I am pretty new to Jquery, I am using validation rule against my textbox. The problem is when i mark textbox is mandatory n user doesn't input any value then it doesn't show any validation message. I have associated another validation message for textbox tht the value shu be in range and which works when user provides any input.

$.validator.addMethod("requiredRangeFunction", function(value, element) {debugger
            $.validator.messages["requiredRangeFunction"] = 
    jQuery.format(
      $(element).attr('ErrorMessage') ? $(element).attr('ErrorMessage') : "Please enter the value between {0} and {1}",
      $(element).attr('MinValue'), 
      $(element).attr('MaxValue')
     );
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    return  this.optional(element) || ((value > Number($(element).attr('MinValue')) && (value < Number($(element).attr('MaxValue')))));
}, "Please enter valid value.");

issue is with this.optional(element) which returns dependency mismatch when user doesnt provide any input.

my textbox can be optional too so i require to call this.optional(element)

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Testing for (this.optional(element) == true) worked for me.

So in your case it would be:

return  (this.optional(element) == true) || ((value > Number($(element).attr('MinValue')) && (value < Number($(element).attr('MaxValue')))));

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(Opposite from Nav's solution)

return (this.optional(element) != false) || test;

this works for sure.

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You can replace the

return this.optional(element) || <test condition>

by

var r = $(element).rules();
var req=(this.objectLength(r))?r.required:false;
return !req || <test condition>;

May be it will be enouth:

var req=r.required; // true, false or undefined.

Assume that undefined is the same as false for our needs.

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Optional means the user doesn't have to provide any input. If there is no input, it doesn't need to be validated.