Starting With jQuery - Validation Plug-in

This series of posts on using jQuery with no prior knowledge comes to its third iteration. Today's post focuses on an introduction to the Validation Plug-in. This plug-in extends jQuery by adding simple client-side validation to a given HTML form. In future entries we'll examine some of the challenges this plug-in has with traditional ASP.Net web form applications; however, for this post, we'll focus on just the basics.