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Asked: 2026-06-14T22:25:39+00:00

Objective : I’d like to display the focused field error message in a container.

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Objective: I’d like to display the focused field error message in a container.

What I’ve done so far:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title></title>
        <style type="text/css">
            label.pre {
                display:inline-block;
                width:60px;
            }
        </style>
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.min.js"
        type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.9/jquery.validate.min.js"
        type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function () {
                $("form").validate({
                    messages: {
                        name: "Please specify your name.",
                        email: {
                            required: "We need your email address to contact you.",
                            email: "Your email address must be in the format of name@domain.com."
                        },
                        url: "A valid URL, please.",
                        comment: "Please enter your comment."
                    },
                    showErrors: function (errorMap, errorList) {
                        if (errorList.length) {
                            $("span").html(errorList[0].message);
                        }
                    }
                });
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
<span></span>
        <form action="#">
            <div>
                <label class="pre" for="entry_0">Name *</label>
                <input type="text" class="required" name="name" id="entry_0">
            </div>
            <div>
                <label class="pre" for="entry_1">Email *</label>
                <input type="text" class="required email" name="email"
                id="entry_1">
            </div>
            <div>
                <label class="pre" for="entry_2">URL</label>
                <input type="text" class="url" name="url" id="entry_2">
            </div>
            <div>
                <textarea class="required" name="comment" id="entry_3" rows="7" cols="35"></textarea>
            </div>
            <div>
                <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
            </div>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>

Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/RainLover/32hje/

Problems:

  1. If you click the submit button, the container(span) shows the first
    error message, no matter which field was focused.
  2. Focusing on fields using the Tab key works well (except on the URL field), but focusing with a mouse doesn’t update the span HTML correctly.
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  1. Editorial Team

    Eureka! I just re-checked the validate options and realized I should have used errorPlacement instead of showErrors:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title></title>
        <style type="text/css">
            label.pre {
                display:inline-block;
                width:60px;
            }
        </style>
        <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.4/jquery.min.js"
        type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.9/jquery.validate.min.js"
        type="text/javascript"></script>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            $(document).ready(function () {
                $("form").validate({
                    messages: {
                        name: "Please specify your name.",
                        email: {
                            required: "We need your email address to contact you.",
                            email: "Your email address must be in the format of name@domain.com."
                        },
                        url: "A valid URL, please.",
                        comment: "Please enter your comment."
                    },
                    errorPlacement: function (error, element) {
                        element.focus(function () {
                            $("span").html(error);
                        }).blur(function () {
                            $("span").html('');
                        });
                    }
                });
            });
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <form action="#">
<span></span>
            <div>
                <label class="pre" for="entry_0">Name *</label>
                <input type="text" class="required" name="name" id="entry_0">
            </div>
            <div>
                <label class="pre" for="entry_1">Email *</label>
                <input type="text" class="required email" name="email"
                id="entry_1">
            </div>
            <div>
                <label class="pre" for="entry_2">URL</label>
                <input type="text" class="url" name="url" id="entry_2">
            </div>
            <div>
                <textarea class="required" name="comment" id="entry_3" rows="7" cols="35"></textarea>
            </div>
            <div>
                <input type="submit" name="submit" value="Submit">
            </div>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>
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