Pattern matching on TextBoxFor misbehaves in Firefox
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You can see a live example of my little ASP.NET MVC3/Razor app [here][1].

The text boxes and textareas all have the following attribute to require just word characters. The form uses jquery-validate.js.

    pattern = @"\w{1,50}" //50 characters, etc.

In Firefox only (v13.0.1) these fields are getting highlighted as if they are invalid when they include spaces, or characters like dots, both of which should be legit characters. Why just this browser and how should I correct it? Should I be using a different pattern?


  [1]: https://myhealthonline.sutterhealth.org/mhoenroll/Enrollment