title: jQuery Validate forms by sections
body: <p>i am trying to use jQuery validate to validate a big form that i have cut in 3 different sections.</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>personal information</li>
  <li>job information</li>
  <li>additional information</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>is there a way for me to validate the content every time the user hits continue? and then when they get to the last section they can submit the ENTIRE form?</p>
  
  <p>form</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form  method="post" name="form" id="form" class="form"&gt;
     &lt;div class="section_one form-wrapper-top-margin active"&gt;
       &lt;div class="columns-2 float-left"&gt;
         &lt;input name="name" id="name" type="text" class="" value=""/&gt;
       &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;div class="columns-2 float-right margin-0"&gt;
        &lt;input name="email" id="email" type="text" class="" value=""/&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;div class="columns-2 float-right margin-0"&gt;
        &lt;input name="button" type="button" value="Continue" id="btn_1"/&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
   &lt;/div&gt;
  
   &lt;div class="section_two form-wrapper-top-margin"&gt;
     &lt;div class="columns-1 margin-0"&gt;
       &lt;input name="address" id="address" type="text" class="" value=""/&gt;
     &lt;/div&gt;
  
    &lt;div class="columns-1 margin-0"&gt;
     &lt;textarea name="description" id="description"  type="text" class=""&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
   &lt;/div&gt;
  
   &lt;div class="columns-2 float-right margin-0"&gt;
      &lt;input name="button" type="button" value="Continue" id="btn_2"/&gt;
   &lt;/div&gt;
   &lt;/div&gt;
   &lt;div class="section_there form-wrapper-top-margin"&gt;
   &lt;div class="columns-1 margin-0"&gt;
        &lt;textarea name="description" id="description"  type="text" class=""&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
   &lt;/div&gt;
  
   &lt;div class="columns-2 float-right margin-0"&gt;
      &lt;input name="submit" type="submit" id="submitbtn" value="Send your message"/&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
   &lt;/div&gt;    
   &lt;/form&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>i dont put the jQuery code here because i dont know where to start. i know jQuery validate, validates an entire form, but i never seen it done by sections with out splitting it into 3 different forms. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks for the help...</p>