title: jQuery Validation not working in IE7 + IE8
body: <p>I'm trying to use the <a href="http://bassistance.de/jquery-plugins/jquery-plugin-validation/" rel="noreferrer">jQuery Validation</a> plugin on a form on my website. The form works in FF, Chrome, Opera and Safari. It has yet to work in IE7 or IE8.</p>
  
  <p>Below is a simplified version of my code that seems to work in every browser but IE.</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
  
  &lt;title&gt;Form&lt;/title&gt;
  
  &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.8/jquery.validate.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
      $(document).ready(function(){
         var validator = $("form").validate ({
         rules: {
                  first_name: "required"
                },
         messages: {
                  first_name: "Enter your firstname"
                   }
         });
      });
  &lt;/script&gt;
  
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
  
  &lt;form method="post"&gt;
      &lt;label for="first_name" class="hide"&gt;First Name&lt;/label&gt; 
      &lt;input type="text" name="first_name" value="" id="first_name" class="required" /&gt;
      &lt;button type="submit" id="submit" name="submit"&gt;Submit&lt;/button&gt;
  &lt;/form&gt;
  
  &lt;/body&gt;
  
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Edit:</strong> We now know that using jquery latest, I was using jQuery v1.6, was the issue. I changed back to v1.5.2 and changed</p>
  
  <pre><code>var validator = $("form").validate ({
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>to:</p>
  
  <pre><code>$("form").validate ({
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Everything is working in IE, now. Thanks.</p>