You can use the showErrors and errorPlacement options to customize error placement. Start with errorPlacement, which is easier to implement.
Take a look at the source of this demo for an example of using errorPlacement in a table layout: http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/milk/ Jörn On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 1:41 PM, altern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How can I point the element in which validation error is shown? I have > specific validation form that consists of many radio buttons. > Vaidation error is shown near the first radio button that have the > same 'name' attribute. Problem is that I do not want to have error > near the first radio element, but near the last or in another 'td' > element. All radio buttons are in separate <td> element and are > grouped into table row. Example: > <tr> > <th>Name</th> > <th>A</th> > <th>B</th> > <th>C</th> > <th>D</th> > </tr> > <tr> > <td>question 1</td> <-- I want error to be shown here > <td>A<input type="button" class="required" name="answer1" value="A"/ >></td> <-- error is shown here > <td>B<input type="button" class="required" name="answer1" value="B"/ >></td> > <td>C<input type="button" class="required" name="answer1" value="C"/ >></td> > <td>D<input type="button" class="required" name="answer1" value="D"/ >></td> > </tr> > > 'ErrorLabelContainer' option does not work. It causes great bunch of > errors to be shown in one element and it looks like 'This field is > required. This field is required. This field is required. This field > is required...' > > Any thoughts are appreciated >
