How can I validate a form field value against a variable with jQuery Validate?

I'm sure there must be a simple solution to this..

I simply want to create a rudimentary human verificat开发者_运维问答ion tool for an online form. In pseudo-code, something like

$answer = "foo";

if (form['question'] == $foo){
    // Proceed
} else {
    // Fail
}

The jQuery docs seem to have an equalTo method but this is to compare a form field with another form value..

Any tips greatly appreciated! :)

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You need to have a look at JQuery Validation plugin at http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/validation. Consider the following example:

You may change the rules as explained in the plugin to implement your custom validations.

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Have you looked at this plugin? You can use it to make fields required, validate for certain value types (number, string, credit card, etc), and I believe you can write callback functions to validate for specific values.

http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/validation

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var answer = 'foo';
if ($('#question').val() == answer) {
  // Proceed
} else {
  // Fail.
}