Well.. thanks to everyone's help, especially yours, David, I've finally got a perfectly working solution that is based on your solution, David. Thanks to Jorn and Sam, too!
(Just a note: I've still got one problem to solve. When a form field has been left empty and the error message appears, a user can still click the "Calculate" button and submit the form, which causes a ColdFusion error due to the lack of the data to make the payment calculation. How can I render the button "invalid" or unclickable if there's an error showing?) You can see the finished work at http://bodaford.whitestonemedia.com Click on a photo on the home page to go to the Featured Properties page. Scroll down until you see the "Click here to Calculate Mortgage." line. Then you should see the form. Here's the way I had to modify the code for the plug-in: errorPlacement: function(error, element) { if(element.attr('id') == "Principal") { error.appendTo("#principal_error"); } else if(element.attr('id') == "Interest") { error.appendTo("#interest_error"); } else if(element.attr('id') == "Years") { error.appendTo("#years_error"); } }, And here's the way I modified the HTML to add a row (instead of a div) to have something to append the error message to...(This is just the row for the "Principal" input. This has to be duplicated for each input.) <tr> <td></td><td id="principal_error"></td> </tr> <tr> <td style="width: 202px; padding-right: 4px; font: Arial Helvetica San-Serif; font-weight: bold; font-size: 12px; text-align: right;"> <label for="Principal">Principal</label> </td> <td style="width 202px; text-align: left;"> <INPUT id="Principal" Name="Principal" Type="Text" Value="#Get_Property_Details.Sale_Price#" Size="14" Class="TextInput01"> </td> </tr> -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dexter Sent: Friday, March 09, 2007 2:42 PM To: 'jQuery Discussion.' Subject: Re: [jQuery] Validation help with Date Selector Yes - that way it didn't interfere with the date selector icon at all. - David _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
