<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.js"></script> 
<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.validate.js"></script>

label.error{color:#ea5200; margin-left:4px; padding:0px 20px; 
background:url(images/unchecked.gif) no-repeat 2px 0 } 
label.right{margin-left:4px; padding-left:20px; background: 
url(images/checked.gif) no-repeat 2px 0} 

<form id="myform" action="#" method="post"> 
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="mytable"> 
 <tr class="table_title"> 
  <td colspan="2">jquery.validation 表单验证</td> 
 </tr> 
 <tr> 
  <td width="22%" align="right">用户名：</td> 
  <td><input type="text" name="user" id="user" class="input required" /> 
  <p>用户名为3-16个字符，可以为数字、字母、下划线以及中文</p></td> 
 </tr> 
 <tr> 
  <td align="right">密码：</td> 
  <td><input type="password" name="pass" id="pass" class="input required" /> 
  <p>最小长度:6 最大长度:16</p> 
  </td> 
 </tr> 
 <tr> 
  <td align="right">确认密码：</td> 
  <td><input type="password" name="repass" class="input required" /></td> 
 </tr> 
</table> 
</form>

$(function(){    
  var validate = $("#myform").validate({ 
     rules:{ //定义验证规则 
      ...... 
     }, 
     messages:{ //定义提示信息 
      ...... 
     } 
  }) 
}); 

rules:{ 
 user:{ 
   required:true, 
   maxlength:16, 
   minlength:3 
 }, 
 ...... 
} 

messages:{ 
 user:{ 
   required:"用户名不能为空！", 
   remote:"该用户名已存在，请换个其他的用户名！" 
 }, 
 ...... 
} 

jQuery.validator.addMethod("isZipCode", function(value, element) {   
 var zip = /^[0-9]{6}$/;   
 return this.optional(element) || (zip.test(value));   
}, "请正确填写您的邮政编码!"); 

user:{ 
  remote: { 
     url: "chk_user.php", //服务端验证程序 
     type: "post", //提交方式 
     data: { user: function() { 
       return encodeURIComponent($("#user").val()); //编码数据 
     }} 
  } 
}, 

<?php 
$request = urldecode(trim($_POST['user'])); 
usleep(150000); 
$users = array('daimajiayuan.com', 'jeymii', 'Peter', 'daimajiayuan'); 
$valid = 'true'; 
foreach($users as $user) { 
  if( strtolower($user) == $request ) 
    $valid = 'false'; 
} 
echo $valid; 
?> 

errorPlacement: function(error, element) { 
  if ( element.is(":radio") ) 
    error.appendTo ( element.parent() ); 
  else if ( element.is(":checkbox") ) 
    error.appendTo ( element.parent() ); 
  else if ( element.is("input[name=captcha]") ) 
    error.appendTo ( element.parent() ); 
  else 
    error.insertAfter(element); 
} 

$("input:reset").click(function(){ 
  validate.resetForm(); 
});