title: jQuery validate select box with HTML value
body: <p>I am using jQuery Validation Plugin for form validation and I am not able to validate the select box using not the value fields but the text field..</p>
  
  <p>Here my situation:</p>
  
  <p>[HTML]</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;form id="form"&gt;
        &lt;select name="customPrice[0][50]" id="customPrice050"&gt;
                  &lt;option value="2435"&gt;Select date... &lt;/option&gt;
                  &lt;option value="474"&gt;Friday, Mar 1st&lt;/option&gt;
                  &lt;option value="475"&gt;Friday, Mar 8th&lt;/option&gt;
                  &lt;option value="476"&gt;Friday, Mar 15th&lt;/option&gt;
        &lt;/select&gt;
        &lt;br/&gt;
        &lt;input type="submit" value="Click" /&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p></p>
  
  <p>[jQuery]</p>
  
  <pre><code>$(document).ready(function()
  {       
   // add the rule here
   $.validator.addMethod("valueNotEquals", function(value, element, arg){
    return arg != value;
   }, "Value must not equal arg.");
  
   // configure your validation
   $("form").validate({
    rules: {
     "customPrice[0][50]": { valueNotEquals: "2435" }
    },
    messages: {
     "customPrice[0][50]": {
      valueNotEquals: "Please select a date!"
     }
    }  
   });
  
   }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>);</p>
  
  <p>This works very well. The problem is that the value 2435 in not static and it always changes. The only static property is the text "Select date... ".
  Now I would something like:</p>
  
  <pre><code>"customPrice[0][50]": { textNotEquals: "Select date... " }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can someone help me?</p>