I am looking for, if i can validate some of form fields "onfocusout" and rest with "onsubmit" with JQuery Validation. I have "email" and "phone number" field which i want to validate onfocusout and rest of the fields as default on form submit. but only one of them is working, depends on placing. I would like to do that in single validator function. Please help. here is a detail link for the same on stack overflow http://stackoverflow.com/questions/25521889/jquery-validate-validate-specific-fields-onfocusout-and-rest-onsubmit Thanks.