match password confirm password jquery validate code example

Example 1: password and confirm password validation in jquery

Remove the required: true rule.

Demo: Fiddle

jQuery('.validatedForm').validate({
            rules : {
                password : {
                    minlength : 5
                },
                password_confirm : {
                    minlength : 5,
                    equalTo : "#password"
                }
            }

Example 2: password and confirm password validation js

var check = function() {
  if (document.getElementById('password').value ==
    document.getElementById('confirm_password').value) {
    document.getElementById('message').style.color = 'green';
    document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = 'matching';
  } else {
    document.getElementById('message').style.color = 'red';
    document.getElementById('message').innerHTML = 'not matching';
  }
}