cambiar etiqueta button por hipervinculo para validacion de formulario

dante14 · #1 (**permalink**) 15/09/2011, 21:00

Código Javascript:

Ver original<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1" />
<title>jQuery validation plug-in - main demo</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="../../../web/css/jquery-ui.css" />
<script src="../lib/jquery.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../jquery.validate.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
 
<script type="text/javascript">
$.validator.setDefaults({
    submitHandler: function() { alert("submitted!"); },
    highlight: function(input) {
        $(input).addClass("ui-state-highlight");
    },
    unhighlight: function(input) {
        $(input).removeClass("ui-state-highlight");
    }
});
 
$().ready(function() {
    // validate the comment form when it is submitted
    $("#commentForm").validate();
    
    // validate signup form on keyup and submit
    $("#signupForm").validate({
        rules: {
            firstname: "required",
            lastname: "required",
            username: {
                required: true,
                minlength: 2
            },
            password: {
                required: true,
                minlength: 5
            },
            confirm_password: {
                required: true,
                minlength: 5,
                equalTo: "#password"
            },
            email: {
                required: true,
                email: true
            },
            topic: {
                required: "#newsletter:checked",
                minlength: 2
            },
            agree: "required",
                        newsletter: "required"
        },
        messages: {
            firstname: "Please enter your firstname",
            lastname: "Please enter your lastname",
            username: {
                required: "Please enter a username",
                minlength: "Your username must consist of at least 2 characters"
            },
            password: {
                required: "Please provide a password",
                minlength: "Your password must be at least 5 characters long"
            },
            confirm_password: {
                required: "Please provide a password",
                minlength: "Your password must be at least 5 characters long",
                equalTo: "Please enter the same password as above"
            },
            email: "Please enter a valid email address",
            agree: "Please accept our policy",
                        newsletter: "ingresa tu new"
        }
    });
    
    
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
 
<form class="cmxform" id="signupForm" method="get" action="a.php">
    <fieldset class="ui-widget ui-widget-content ui-corner-all">
        <legend class="ui-widget ui-widget-header ui-corner-all">Validating a complete form</legend>
        <p>
            <label for="firstname">Firstname</label>
            <input id="firstname" name="firstname" />
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="lastname">Lastname</label>
            <input id="lastname" name="lastname" />
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="username">Username</label>
            <input id="username" name="username" />
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="password">Password</label>
            <input id="password" name="password" type="password" />
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="confirm_password">Confirm password</label>
            <input id="confirm_password" name="confirm_password" type="password" />
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="email">Email</label>
            <input id="email" name="email" />
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="agree">Please agree to our policy</label>
            <input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" id="agree" name="agree" />
        </p>
        <p>
            <label for="newsletter">I'd like to receive the newsletter</label>
            <input type="checkbox" class="checkbox" id="newsletter" name="newsletter" />
        </p>
        <p>
            <button class="submit" type="submit">Submit</button>
        </p>
    </fieldset>
</form>
 
</body>
</html>

hay todo funciona normal con el button type submit, pero yo lo malo es que yo no uso button si no hipervinculo

<a href="javascript: document.adminForm.action='../ruta'; document.adminForm.submit()" >
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</a>

como hago para cambiar el button por hipervinculo ??

esa es mi duda

gracias