Jquery Validate custom error message location

Jquery Problem Overview

This looks very simply, but I can't figure it out. I'm using the jquery validate plugin. I'm trying to validate <input name=first> and <input name=second> to output the error messages into:

<span id="errNm2"></span> <span id="errNm1"></span>

I already started writing the errorPlacement: which is where you customize your error message location.

How can I put the errors message in those <span>?

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('#form').validate({
        errorPlacement: function(error, element) {
            error.append($('.errorTxt span'));
        },
        rules,
});

<input type="text" name="first"/>
<input type="text" name="second"/>

<div class="errorTxt">
   <span id="errNm2"></span>
   <span id="errNm1"></span>
</div>

Jquery Solutions

Solution 1 - Jquery

What you should use is the errorLabelContainer

jQuery(function($) {
  var validator = $('#form').validate({
    rules: {
      first: {
        required: true
      },
      second: {
        required: true
      }
    },
    messages: {},
    errorElement : 'div',
    errorLabelContainer: '.errorTxt'
  });
});

.errorTxt{
  border: 1px solid red;
  min-height: 20px;
}

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.12.0/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.12.0/additional-methods.js"></script>

<form id="form" method="post" action="">
  <input type="text" name="first" />
  <input type="text" name="second" />
  <div class="errorTxt"></div>
  <input type="submit" class="button" value="Submit" />
</form>

If you want to retain your structure then

jQuery(function($) {
  var validator = $('#form').validate({
    rules: {
      first: {
        required: true
      },
      second: {
        required: true
      }
    },
    messages: {},
    errorPlacement: function(error, element) {
      var placement = $(element).data('error');
      if (placement) {
        $(placement).append(error)
      } else {
        error.insertAfter(element);
      }
    }
  });
});

#errNm1 {
  border: 1px solid red;
}
#errNm2 {
  border: 1px solid green;
}

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.11.1.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.12.0/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.12.0/additional-methods.js"></script>

<form id="form" method="post" action="">
  <input type="text" name="first" data-error="#errNm1" />
  <input type="text" name="second" data-error="#errNm2" />
  <div class="errorTxt">
    <span id="errNm2"></span>
    <span id="errNm1"></span>
  </div>
  <input type="submit" class="button" value="Submit" />
</form>

Solution 2 - Jquery

You can simply create extra conditions which match the fields you require in the same function. For example, using your code above...

$(document).ready(function () {
    $('#form').validate({
        errorPlacement: function(error, element) {
            //Custom position: first name
            if (element.attr("name") == "first" ) {
                $("#errNm1").text(error);
            }
            //Custom position: second name
            else if (element.attr("name") == "second" ) {
                $("#errNm2").text(error);
            }
            // Default position: if no match is met (other fields)
            else {
                 error.append($('.errorTxt span'));
            }
        },
        rules
});

Hope that helps!

Solution 3 - Jquery

 if (e.attr("name") == "firstName" ) {
     $("#firstName__validate").text($(error).text());
     console.log($(error).html());
 }

Try this get text of error object

Solution 4 - Jquery

HTML

<form ... id ="GoogleMapsApiKeyForm">
	...
	<input name="GoogleMapsAPIKey" type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Enter Google maps API key" />
	....
	<span class="text-danger" id="GoogleMapsAPIKey-errorMsg"></span>'
	...
	<button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Save</button>
</form>

Javascript

$(function () {
	$("#GoogleMapsApiKeyForm").validate({
	  rules: {
		  GoogleMapsAPIKey: {
			  required: true
		  }
		},
		messages: {
			GoogleMapsAPIKey: 'Google maps api key is required',
		},
		errorPlacement: function (error, element) {
			if (element.attr("name") == "GoogleMapsAPIKey")
				$("#GoogleMapsAPIKey-errorMsg").html(error);
		},
		submitHandler: function (form) {
		   // form.submit(); //if you need Ajax submit follow for rest of code below
		}
	});

	//If you want to use ajax
	$("#GoogleMapsApiKeyForm").submit(function (e) {
		e.preventDefault();
		if (!$("#GoogleMapsApiKeyForm").valid())
			return;

	   //Put your ajax call here
	});
});

Solution 5 - Jquery

JQUERY FORM VALIDATION CUSTOM ERROR MESSAGE

Demo & example

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("#registration").validate({
    // Specify validation rules
    rules: {
      firstname: "required",
      lastname: "required",
      email: {
        required: true,
        email: true
      },      
      phone: {
        required: true,
        digits: true,
        minlength: 10,
        maxlength: 10,
      },
      password: {
        required: true,
        minlength: 5,
      }
    },
    messages: {
      firstname: {
      required: "Please enter first name",
     },      
     lastname: {
      required: "Please enter last name",
     },     
     phone: {
      required: "Please enter phone number",
      digits: "Please enter valid phone number",
      minlength: "Phone number field accept only 10 digits",
      maxlength: "Phone number field accept only 10 digits",
     },     
     email: {
      required: "Please enter email address",
      email: "Please enter a valid email address.",
     },
    },
  
  });
});

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>jQuery Form Validation Using validator()</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-3.1.1.min.js"></script> 
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.19.0/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<style>
  .error{
    color: red;
  }
  label,
  input,
  button {
    border: 0;
    margin-bottom: 3px;
    display: block;
    width: 100%;
  }
 .common_box_body {
    padding: 15px;
    border: 12px solid #28BAA2;
    border-color: #28BAA2;
    border-radius: 15px;
    margin-top: 10px;
    background: #d4edda;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="common_box_body test">
  <h2>Registration</h2>
  <form action="#" name="registration" id="registration">
 
    <label for="firstname">First Name</label>
    <input type="text" name="firstname" id="firstname" placeholder="John"><br>
 
    <label for="lastname">Last Name</label>
    <input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname" placeholder="Doe"><br>
 
    <label for="phone">Phone</label>
    <input type="text" name="phone" id="phone" placeholder="8889988899"><br>  
 
    <label for="email">Email</label>
    <input type="email" name="email" id="email" placeholder="[email protected]"><br>
 
    <label for="password">Password</label>
    <input type="password" name="password" id="password" placeholder=""><br>
 
    <input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" class="submit" value="Submit">
  </form>
</div>
 
</body>
</html>

Solution 6 - Jquery

This Worked for me

Actually error is a array which contain error message and other values for elements we pass, you can console.log(error); and see. Inside if condition "error.appendTo($(element).parents('div').find($('.errorEmail')));" Is nothing but finding html element in code and passing the error message.

    $("form[name='contactUs']").validate({
rules: {
    message: 'required',
    name: "required",
    phone_number: {
        required: true,
        minlength: 10,
        maxlength: 10,
        number: false
    },
    email: {
        required: true,
        email: true
    }
},
messages: {
    name: "Please enter your name",
    email: "Please enter a valid email address",
    message: "Please enter your message",
    phone_number: "Please enter a valid mobile number"
},
errorPlacement: function(error, element) {
        $("#errorText").empty();
      
        if(error[0].htmlFor == 'name')
        {
            error.appendTo($(element).parents('div').find($('.errorName')));
        }
        if(error[0].htmlFor == 'email')
        {
            error.appendTo($(element).parents('div').find($('.errorEmail')));
        }
        if(error[0].htmlFor == 'phone_number')
        {
            error.appendTo($(element).parents('div').find($('.errorMobile')));
        }
        if(error[0].htmlFor == 'message')
        {
            error.appendTo($(element).parents('div').find($('.errorMessage')));
        }
      }
    });

Solution 7 - Jquery

Add this code in your validate method:

 errorLabelContainer: '#errors'

and in your html, put simply this where you want to catch the error:

<div id="errors"></div>

All the errors will be held in the div, independently of your input box.

It worked very fine for me.

Solution 8 - Jquery

Just add an empty label tag with the same id as input field has + "-error", for example.

<input id="myID1" required>
<input id="myID2" required>
<div>
    <label id="myID1-error" class="error" for="myID1"></label>
    <label id="myID2-error" class="error" for="myID2"></label>
</div>

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