jQuery Validator's "required" not working when value is set at statup

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Published on 2010-01-23T17:26:54Z Indexed on 2010/05/18 13:10 UTC
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Hello, I have a problem with jQuery Validator. I want to use "required" property on a text input. It doesn't work when input has set value attribute by HTML code (tested on Firefox (3.5), and on IE 8 - on IE it works a bit better).

Story: 1. Page loads; 2. value is cleared; 3. focus is changed. 4. Nothing happens but the error message should be displayed; 5. getting back to the field and typing some characters. 6. changing focus; 7. getting back to the field; 8. clearing the field. 9. Error is displayed even before leaving the field.

The HTML code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head>
    <script src="Web/Scripts/jquery-1.3.2.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
    <script src="Web/Scripts/jquery.validate.js" type="text/javascript"></script>    
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1">
        <input type="text" id="name1" name="name1" value="test" /><br />
        <input type="text" />
    </form>

    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function() {
            var validator = $("form").validate({

                rules: {
                    name1: {
                        required: true,
                        minlength: 2
                    }
                },
                messages: {
                     name1: "bad name"
                },
            });
        });
    </script>
</body>
</html>

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