title: Why my <form> getting the attribute "novalidate"?
body: <p>My <code>&lt;form&gt;</code> is getting the attribute <code>novalidate</code> and this is making him not be validated by jQuery.Validate. I'm using version 1.9 and 1.11, and both generate this errors.</p>
  
  <p>i'm not using HTM5 validation ...</p>
  
  <p>my page code:</p>
  
  <p>SCRIPT:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!-- JQUERY VALIDATION --&gt;
      &lt;script src="js/jquery.validate.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
      &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
              $(document).ready(function(){
                  $("#enviando").hide();
                  $("#form").validate({
                      rules: {  
                          nome: { required: true, minlength: 2 }, 
                          empresa: { required: true },
                          email: { required: true, email: true },             
                          telefone: { required: true },
                          assunto: { required: true },
                          mensagem: { required: true }
                      },  
                      messages: {  
                          nome: { required: 'Preencha o campo nome', minlength: 'No mínimo 2 letras' }, 
                          empresa: { required: 'Preencha o campo Empresa' },
                          email: { required: 'Informe o seu Email', email: 'Informe um Email válido' },               
                          telefone: { required: 'Informe seu Telefone' },
                          assunto: { required: 'Preencha o campo com o Assunto' },
                          mensagem: { required: 'Escreva sua Mensagem' }
  
                      },  
                      submitHandler: function( form ){
                          $("#form").hide();
                          $("#enviando").show();              
                          var dados = $( form ).serialize();  
                          $.ajax({  
                              type: "POST",  
                              url: "envia_contato.asp",
                              data: dados,  
                              success: function( data )  
                              {  
                                  alert("teste");
  
                              }  
                          });  
  
                          return false;  
                      }           
                  });
  
                  $("#form").removeAttr("novalidate");
  
              //Input and Textarea Click-Clear
              $('input[type=text]').focus(function() {
                  if($(this).attr('readonly') || $(this).attr('readonly') == 'readonly') return false;
                  if ($(this).val() === $(this).attr('title')) {
                          $(this).val('');
                  }   
                  }).blur(function() {
                  if($(this).attr('readonly') || $(this).attr('readonly') == 'readonly') return false;
                  if ($(this).val().length === 0) {
                      $(this).val($(this).attr('title'));
                  }                        
              }); 
              $('textarea').focus(function() {
                  if ($(this).text() === $(this).attr('title')) {
                          $(this).text('');
                      }        
                  }).blur(function() {
                  if ($(this).text().length === 0) {
                      $(this).text($(this).attr('title'));
                  }                        
              }); 
  
  
  
              });
  
          &lt;/script&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>FORM Markup:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="form_faleconosco"&gt;
                  &lt;div id="enviando"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;img src="imagens/ajax-loader.gif"&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;span&gt;ENVIANDO FORMULÁRIO&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
  
                  &lt;form action="" id="form" class="feedback_form"  method="post"&gt;
                      &lt;label class="label-name"&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
                      &lt;input class="field-name form_field" type="text" title="Name" value="Name" name="nome" style="width: 400px;"/&gt;
                      &lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
                      &lt;label class="label-empresa"&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
                      &lt;input class="field-empresa form_field" type="text" title="Empresa" value="Empresa" name="empresa" style="width: 400px;"/&gt;
                      &lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
                      &lt;label class="label-email"&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
                      &lt;input class="field-email form_field" type="text" title="Email" value="Email" name="email" style="width: 400px;"/&gt;
                      &lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
                      &lt;label class="label-phone"&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
                      &lt;input class="field-phone form_field" type="text" title="Telefone" value="Telefone" name="telefone" style="width: 400px;"/&gt;
                      &lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
                      &lt;label class="label-subject"&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
                      &lt;input class="field-subject form_field" type="text" title="Assunto" value="Assunto" name="assunto" style="width: 400px;"/&gt;
                      &lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
                      &lt;label class="label-message"&gt;&lt;/label&gt;
                      &lt;textarea class="field-message form_field" title="Mensagem" rows="5" cols="45" name="mensagem" style="width: 400px;"&gt;Mensagem&lt;/textarea&gt;
                      &lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;
                      &lt;input id="submit2" class="feedback_go" type="button" value="Enviar Mensagem" name="submit"/&gt;
                  &lt;/form&gt;
  
              &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
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