(function() {
	
	function stripHtml(value) {
		// remove html tags and space chars
		return value.replace(/<.[^<>]*?>/g, ' ').replace(/&nbsp;|&#160;/gi, ' ')
		// remove numbers and punctuation
		.replace(/[0-9.(),;:!?%#$'"_+=\/-]*/g,'');
	}
	jQuery.validator.addMethod("maxWords", function(value, element, params) { 
	    return this.optional(element) || stripHtml(value).match(/\b\w+\b/g).length < params; 
	}, jQuery.validator.format("Please enter {0} words or less.")); 
	 
	jQuery.validator.addMethod("minWords", function(value, element, params) { 
	    return this.optional(element) || stripHtml(value).match(/\b\w+\b/g).length >= params; 
	}, jQuery.validator.format("Please enter at least {0} words.")); 
	 
	jQuery.validator.addMethod("rangeWords", function(value, element, params) { 
	    return this.optional(element) || stripHtml(value).match(/\b\w+\b/g).length >= params[0] && value.match(/bw+b/g).length < params[1]; 
	}, jQuery.validator.format("Please enter between {0} and {1} words."));

})();

jQuery.validator.addMethod("letterswithbasicpunc", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^[a-z-.,()'\"\s]+$/i.test(value);
}, "Letters or punctuation only please");  

jQuery.validator.addMethod("alphanumeric", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^\w+$/i.test(value);
}, "Letters, numbers, or underscores only please");  

jQuery.validator.addMethod("lettersonly", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^[a-z]+$/i.test(value);
}, "Letters only please"); 

jQuery.validator.addMethod("nowhitespace", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^\S+$/i.test(value);
}, "No white space please"); 

jQuery.validator.addMethod("ziprange", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^90[2-5]\d\{2}-\d{4}$/.test(value);
}, "Your ZIP-code must be in the range 902xx-xxxx to 905-xx-xxxx");

jQuery.validator.addMethod("integer", function(value, element) {
	return this.optional(element) || /^-?\d+$/.test(value);
}, "A positive or negative non-decimal number please");