title: MVC3 Force Validation of Hidden Fields
body: <p>I need to enable the validation of hidden fields using ASP.net MVC3 unobtrusive validation.</p>
  
  <p>The reason behind this is a jquery plugin which hides the original input field to show something fancier. But this disables validation of the field as it becomes hidden.</p>
  
  <p>I tried to use the following code but without success.</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("form").validate({
      ignore: ""
  });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>