Calling validate on a long form on IE7 will cause the "Script is taki…

…ng too long" to display after sometime. This is tested with jQuery 1.4.4 and Validation Plugin 1.8.1

When investigating the library itself the problem turned to be that this line is causing the slowness: this.find("input, button").
The code modifications make the caches the jQuery object rather than querying again, thus, saving valuable resources.

jquery.validate.js

@@ -37,14 +37,16 @@ $.extend($.fn, {
 
 		if ( validator.settings.onsubmit ) {
 
+			var inputsAndButtons = this.find("input, button");
+
 			// allow suppresing validation by adding a cancel class to the submit button
-			this.find("input, button").filter(".cancel").click(function() {
+			inputsAndButtons.filter(".cancel").click(function () {
 				validator.cancelSubmit = true;
 			});
 
 			// when a submitHandler is used, capture the submitting button
 			if (validator.settings.submitHandler) {
-				this.find("input, button").filter(":submit").click(function() {
+				inputsAndButtons.filter(":submit").click(function () {
 					validator.submitButton = this;
 				});
 			}