So I have this jQuery Validation plugin, and it has a custom success message. The form validates automatically, because it's attached to the body. The problem comes when I wish to check the variable to see if the form is valid. That revalidates it, which ends up adding an extra success message (image in my case) which is undesired. I want the success message to only appear once, regardless of the fact it is validated multiple times. Here's my code:

```
  $("#makeaComment").validate({
   errorContainer: ".error",
   errorPlacement: function(error, element) {
    error.appendTo( element.next() );
   },
   success: function(label) {
    label.removeClass("error").addClass("check");
   }
  });

  $("#loginAction").click(function() {
   if ($("#makeaComment").valid()) {
    commentLogin();
   }
   else {
    $('#loginAction').attr('value','Fix Errors and Continue');
   }
  });

```

Thanks!