Yes that would work fine if I had all the fields in the form above one proceed link. However, because i'm dealing with several div panels within the form where each has its own field(s) and proceed link to another sucessive panel, specifying several id's in the first panel 'proceed' would not work as some of the id's it would be validating would be in panels which have not been accessed yet. It would simply leave the first proceed in a hidden state...