In a form we created, we needed to be able to block people who completed the form with a particular value for a dropdown from having a successful form submission.

This could be useful in cases where you wanted to prevent people from just selecting one of the default options so that they could submit the form. In our case, we had unqualified international leads submitting a form intended for only three countries.

Here’s how we did it. Mark Wainwright of Unbounce gave me the head start with code he shared on another thread (about blocking email addresses from unverified providers). The main thing I did was just to switch to using a simple indexOf match instead of regex.

lp.jQuery(function($) {











 var ruleID = 'notForeignCountries';







var field = 'country';







var message = 'Only people living in the US, Canada, and the United Kingdom may inquire through this form.';











 var rules = module.lp.form.data.validationRulesefield];











 $.validator.addMethod(ruleID, function(value, field) {







  var valid = false;







  if(value.indexOf("Other") == -1) {











 valid = true;







  }







  return valid || (!rules.required && !value);







}, message);











 ruleseruleID] = true;







  });

The main things you would change are ruleID, field (which is the machine name of the field), message (what the user will see on failure), and the line that indicates what value makes it fail - in our case “Other.” You could add or conditions to the JS if you wanted multiple failing values.