Would like some assistance in improving my jQuery validation code. I have some repeated code, but I am not sure how to write it in a way so that I don't have to keep repeating the same code over and over again for different variable names etc... (such as the if statement part) My goal is to make it so that I can easily apply it to any other form I create.

[Here is the jsFiddle][1]

Javascript:

 (function($) {

		$('.commentForm').submit(function () {

		 var error = 'error';

		 var name = $(this).find('.name')
		 nameVal = name.attr('value')
		 email = $(this).find('.email')
		 comment = $(this).find('textarea')
		 commentVal = comment.html();

		 if (!(name.val() === nameVal || name.val() === '' || name.val().length < 3) && 
 !(comment.val() === commentVal || comment.val() === '' || comment.val().length < 3) && 
 validateEmail(email.val())
 ) {
		 console.log('Form is good');
		 return true;
		 } else {

		 (name.val() === nameVal || name.val() === '' || name.val().length < 3) ? name.addClass(error) : name.removeClass(error);
		 (comment.val() === commentVal || comment.val() === '' || comment.val().length < 3) ? comment.addClass(error) : comment.removeClass(error);
		 (!validateEmail(email.val())) ? email.addClass(error) : email.removeClass(error);

		 console.log('Form is BAD');
		 return false;

		 }

		});

		function validateEmail(email) {
		 var re = /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/;
		 return re.test(email);
		}
 
 }) (jQuery);

Thanks for your help in advance!


 [1]: http://jsfiddle.net/9gZhc/1/