title: Validate select box
body: <p>I'm using the jQuery plugin <a href="http://plugins.jquery.com/project/validate" rel="noreferrer">Validation</a> to validate a form. I have a select list looking like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;select id="select"&gt;
  &lt;option value=""&gt;Choose an option&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="option1"&gt;Option1&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="option2"&gt;Option2&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;option value="option3"&gt;Option3&lt;/option&gt;
  &lt;/select&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Now, I want to make sure that the user selects anything but "Choose an option" (which is the default one). So that it won't validate if you choose the first option. How can this be done?</p>