Cart - Use cart attributes to collect more information

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I’m using the Debut theme and I believe Ajax is enabled on the theme. I’ve added my custom required fields:

<div class="fein-resale">
           <p class="cart-attribute__field resalecert idnumbers">
  				<label for="resale-certificate">Resale Certificate Number *</label>
  				<input required class="required" id="resale-certificate" type="text" name="attributes[Resale Certificate]" value="{{ cart.attributes["Resale Certificate"] }}">
	 	   </p>
      	   <p class="cart-attribute__field fedidn idnumbers">
  				<label for="federal-tax-id">Federal Tax ID Number *</label>
  				<input required class="required" id="federal-tax-id" type="text" name="attributes[Federal Tax ID]" value="{{ cart.attributes["Federal Tax ID"] }}">
	  	   </p>
           <div style="clear:both;"></div>
        	<p class="required"><small>* required</small></p>
      </div>

but I can’t get it to validate. I’m trying to use javascript but don’t think I’m getting it quite right. Could someone help me get the right code possibly?

Here’s what I have but I know it’s incomplete:

$(".template-cart form[action='/cart']").on("submit", function(e){
  $(".cart_error").remove();
  if(#resale-certificate == ""){
   alert("Please enter your Resale Certificate #");
   attributes[Resale Certificate].focus();
  return false;
  }
  if(#federal-tax-id == ""){
   alert("Please enter your Federal Tax ID #");
   attributes[Resale Certificate].focus();
  return false;
  }
});

Also, I have this at the bottom of the theme.js file under the last line:

$(theme.init);

Is that correct?

Thank you for your time and help!