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HTML

<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.11.0/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.11.0/additional-methods.js"></script>
<form id="myform">
    <input type="text" name="field_1" />
    <br/>
    <input type="text" name="field_2" />
    <br/>
    <input type="text" name="field_3" />
    <br/>
    <input type="text" name="field_4" />
    <br/>
    <input type="submit" />
</form>
<a id="docs" href="http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation" target="_blank">Validation Documentation</a>

CSS

#docs {
    display: block;
    position: fixed;
    bottom: 0;
    right: 0;
}

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function () {

    var ruleSet_default = {
        required: true,
        number: true
    };

    var ruleSet1 = {
        max: 99
    };
    $.extend(ruleSet1, ruleSet_default); // combines defaults into set 1

    var ruleSet2 = {
        min: 3
    };
    $.extend(ruleSet2, ruleSet_default); // combines defaults into set 2

    var ruleSet3 = { };
    $.extend(ruleSet3, ruleSet1, ruleSet2); // combines sets 2 & 1 into set 3.  Defaults are included since they were already combined into sets 1 & 2 previously.


    $('#myform').validate({ // initialize the plugin
        rules: {
            field_1: ruleSet2,
            field_2: ruleSet_default,
            field_3: ruleSet1,
            field_4: ruleSet3
        },
        submitHandler: function (form) { // for demo
            alert('valid form submitted'); // for demo
            return false; // for demo
        }
    });

});