title: styledSelect and jQuery Validation
body: <p>I'm using styledselect for my dropdowns...
  <a href="http://code.google.com/p/lnet/wiki/jQueryStyledSelectOverview" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/lnet/wiki/jQueryStyledSelectOverview</a></p>
  
  <p>I'm also using the jQuery validation plugin
  <a href="http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/" rel="nofollow">http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/</a></p>
  
  <p><strong>How can I get the validation to work on the 'styledSelect' dropdown?</strong></p>
  
  <p>My HTML for the dropdown is</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select name="gender" class="required"&gt;
     &lt;option value="" selected="selected"&gt;Select Gender&lt;/option&gt;
     &lt;option value="Male"&gt;Male&lt;/option&gt;
     &lt;option value="Female"&gt;Female&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the produced HTML after the styledSelect plugin does its thing is</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select name="gender" class="required" style="display: none;"&gt;
         &lt;option value="" selected="selected"&gt;Select Gender&lt;/option&gt;
         &lt;option value="Male"&gt;Male&lt;/option&gt;
         &lt;option value="Female"&gt;Female&lt;/option&gt;
      &lt;/select&gt;    
  
  &lt;div class="styledSelect"&gt;
         &lt;ul&gt;
            &lt;li rel class="option selected first"&gt;Select Gender&lt;/li&gt;
            &lt;li rel="Male" class="option"&gt;Male&lt;/li&gt;
            &lt;li rel="Female" class="option last"&gt;Female&lt;/li&gt;
         &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>the selected element (li) from from list gets the class of 'selected'.</p>
  
  <p>My current js for the validate plugin is in its simplest setup.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$('.signupform').validate();
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Any help would be greatly appreciated!</p>