Can .rules() method work on a collection?

[brownieboy]

I was trying to use the .rules() method to dynamically remove the rules from a jQuery collection of fields but it wouldn't work. I was selecting by class, like so:

$(".myClass").rules("remove");

where myClass was added to a number of input fields. For some reason though, it was only removing the rules from the first member of the collection returned. When I checked the source code for the .rules() method, I could see why: the method's first line is:

var element = this[0];

So, it's specifically coded to only process the first member of the calling jQuery collection. I'm getting around this by looping through my collection in my call, like so:

$(".myClass").each(function(index, element) {
    $(element).rules("remove");
});

But that's messy. Is there some reason that we can't have the .rules() method do this looping instead?

I don't mind taking a look at it.

[brownieboy]

Closed by mistake (butterfingers....)

[Indomitable]

The rules should work for each element selected by jquery. In my case it happened that the selection didn't return any elements and I got an error from rules method. At least check if this[0] !== undefined or this.length === 1.

[jzaefferer]

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