Question

I work with jquery.validate and I search a way how not allow to validator to generate error element.

$("#smsForm").validate({
  highlight: function (element) {
    $(element).addClass("notvalid");
  },
  unhighlight: function (element) {
    $(element).removeClass("notvalid");
  }
});

I just want to add not valid class to input field without generate any input elements.
But validator add :

<label for="phoneNumber" generated="true" class="error">Phone</label>

for example if phone number not correct

Answer 1

I think that if you set the errorElement option passed to .validator() to anything other than "label", then the validate plugin will not generate an error element for you. For example:

$("#smsForm").validate({
            errorElement: "",
            highlight: function (element) {
                $(element).addClass("notvalid");
            },
            unhighlight: function (element) {
                $(element).removeClass("notvalid");
            }
        });