title: Validating nicedit form textarea
body: <p>I have a form which is transformed to rich text editor by Nicedit. Also i have applied Jquery validation plugin to the form and everything works fine except the textarea tag. 
   The textarea tag is not responding to the jquery validation plugin. When i click on the submit button without entering text into the textarea, the form gets submitted. I will be very glad if someone could help me.
   Below is my code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
  &lt;script src="nicEdit.js" type="text/javascript"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
  &lt;style&gt;
  body
  {
  font-family:Gotham,'sans-serif';
  }
  
      &lt;/style&gt;
      &lt;/body&gt;
      &lt;/head&gt;
      &lt;body&gt;
      &lt;form id="ruebenform" novalidate="novalidate"&gt;
      Firstname: &lt;input name="firstname" id="firstname"&gt;
      &lt;textarea id="thetextarea" rows="5" cols="45"&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
              &lt;button type="submit"&gt;Submit&lt;/button&gt;
      &lt;/form&gt;
  
      &lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
          new nicEditor({maxHeight : 50}).panelInstance('thetextarea');
      &lt;/script&gt;
  
      //Jquery validation script
    &lt;script&gt;
      $("#ruebenform").validate({
                  rules:{
                           firstname: {
                                   required: true,
                                   minlength: 2
                           },
                           thetextarea: {
                                   required: true,
                                   minlength: 2
                           }
                   },
                   messages: {
                           firstname: {
                                   required: "Please enter a title",
                                   minlength: "At least 2 characters"
                           },
                           thetextarea: {
                                   required: "Please enter a description",
                                   minlength: "At least 2 characters"
                           }
                   },
                   submitHandler: function(form) { return false; }
           });
      &lt;/script&gt;
   &lt;/body&gt;
   &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>