how to check if a form is valid programmatically using jQuery Validation Plugin

I have a form with a couple of buttons and I'm using jQuery Validation Plugin from http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/. I just want to know if there is any way I can check if the form is considered in valid state by jquery validation plugin from anywhere in my javascript code.

Use .valid() from the jQuery Validation plugin:

$("#form_id").valid();

> Checks whether the selected form is valid or whether all selected > elements are valid. validate() needs to be called on the form before > checking it using this method.

Where the form with id='form_id' is a form that has already had .validate() called on it.

2015 answer: we have this out of the box on modern browsers, just use the HTML5 CheckValidity API from jQuery. I've also made a jquery-html5-validity module to do this:

npm install jquery-html5-validity

Then:

var $ = require('jquery')
require("jquery-html5-validity")($);

then you can run:

$('.some-class').isValid()

true

@mikemaccana answer is useful.

And I also used https://github.com/ryanseddon/H5F. Found on http://microjs.com. It's some kind of polyfill and you can use it as follows (jQuery is used in example):

if ( $('form')[0].checkValidity() ) {
    // the form is valid
}

valid() method.

http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/valid

For a group of inputs you can use an improved version based in @mikemaccana's answer

$.fn.isValid = function(){
    var validate = true;
    this.each(function(){
        if(this.checkValidity()==false){
            validate = false;
        }
    });
};

now you can use this to verify if the form is valid:

if(!$(".form-control").isValid){
    return;
}

You could use the same technique to get all the error messages:

$.fn.getVelidationMessage = function(){
    var message = "";
    var name = "";
    this.each(function(){
        if(this.checkValidity()==false){
            name = ($( "label[for=" + this.id + "] ").html() || this.placeholder || this.name || this.id);
            message = message + name +":"+ (this.validationMessage || 'Invalid value.')+"\n<br>";
        }
    })
    return message;
}

iContribute: It's never too late for a right answer.

var form = $("form#myForm");
if($('form#myForm > :input[required]:visible').val() != ""){
  form.submit();
}else{
  console.log("Required field missing.");
}

This way the basic HTML5 validation for 'required' fields takes place without interfering with the standard submit using the form's 'name' values.

For Magento, you check validation of form by something like below.

You can try this:

require(["jquery"], function ($) {
    $(document).ready(function () {
        $('#my-button-name').click(function () { // The button type should be "button" and not submit
            if ($('#form-name').valid()) {
                alert("Validation pass");
                return false;
            }else{
                alert("Validation failed");
                return false;
            }
        });
    });
});

Hope this may help you!