title: form validation using jquery-validate.js
body: <p>I have a problem and I don't what am i doing wrong since I follow several examples and none of them worked, I dont get any error, any signal, nothing, maybe someone can help me</p>
  
  <p>Here's my code
  HTML:</p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;form id="contact" method="post" action="#"&gt;
                  &lt;fieldset&gt;
                      &lt;label for="name"&gt;NAME&lt;/label&gt;
                      &lt;input type="text" class="required input-xlarge" id="name-contact" name="name-contact" value="" placeholder="" minlength="2"&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Jquery:</p>
  
  <pre><code>   $( "#contact" ).validate({
          rules: {
                 "name-contact":{
                     required: true
                 } 
         },
         messages: {
              "name-contact": {
                  required: "Please, enter a name"
              }
         }
  
     });
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>this is the second time i tried to use this plug in because it looks very easy, it hasnt for me
  Thanks in advance</p>