Recently I have been using Facebox on a new website I am building. Using forms in facebox seems like a smart way to go when you do not want them all over the main pages. I came across an issue with trying to validate facebox form fields… yeah.

Validation I used http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/ - it is very good.

Here is the solution

Need to handle the onclick event of the submit button.

onClick=’$(”#my_form”).valid()’

This solved the problem of the facebox closing before the validation was complete.

Hope this helps others.