jquery fadeIn not working

Unless the element is hidden, no fade will occur, you need something like this: You can give it a try here, also $() is deprecated in 1.4+, you should use $(document) or the shorter version, like this: The alternative is to give the element a display: none initially but this breaks for JS-disabled users, or if JavaScript errors occur preventing the fade, so … Read more

What does window.jQuery and window.$ mean?

I will pull from an article I linked to in a comment above: As discussed in the JavaScript Basics section, valid names in JavaScript can be pretty much anything, as long as they don’t begin with a number and don’t include a hyphen. So, the $ in the code above is just a shorter, more … Read more

Validate date in dd/mm/yyyy format using JQuery Validate

You don’t need the date validator. It doesn’t support dd/mm/yyyy format, and that’s why you are getting “Please enter a valid date” message for input like 13/01/2014. You already have the dateITA validator, which uses dd/mm/yyyy format as you need. Just like the date validator, your code for dateGreaterThan and dateLessThan calls new Date for … Read more