title: Why does my jquery form validation not work for IE7? It works in FF, Opera, Safari, etc
body: <p>I recently used jquery and the form validation plugin on a form we're testing at our community college:</p>
  
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  <p>Right off the bat, (if viewed with FF, Opera, Safari, etc.) when you click submit w/o entering any values, you get some nice error messages in the form, the intended effect. However, if you're using IE7, when you click submit you get the server-side validation that our backend developer is partial to. Why does IE7 ignore the jquery validation and jump to the server-side validation? Can I do anything to get IE to behave or am I stuck with what I have? </p>
  
  <p>Thanks for whatever insight you can offer.</p>