Cannot read property 'settings' of undefined - jQuery snippet to solve the issue

Hi All, In this post, I would like to share my thoughts how to resolve the issue Cannot read property ‘settings’ of undefined in jQuery. It might be simple. But it took time to resolve this issue. It will easy for you when you stuck with these issues.

Cannot read property ‘settings’ of undefined – jQuery snippet to solve the issue by Anil Labs

Generally, we add the jQuery attribute to add a rule for required like

jQuery code

$( "#attrName" ).rules( "add", "required");

If we use like we will get the issue like below

jQuery error

Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'settings' of undefined
at n.fn.init.rules (VM507 jquery.validate.min.js:4)
at log (create:815)
at Object.<anonymous> (create:616)
at Function.each (jquery-2.1.3.min.js:2)
at Object.<anonymous> (create:613)
at j (jquery-2.1.3.min.js:2)
at Object.fireWith [as resolveWith] (jquery-2.1.3.min.js:2)
at x (jquery-2.1.3.min.js:4)
at XMLHttpRequest.<anonymous> (jquery-2.1.3.min.js:4)

So, to resolve this issue we need to change the adding rule to attribute