jQuery validate plugin - how to NOT show the "this field is required" labels

Question

How do I turn off the displaying of "this field is required" for ALL of my input text boxes? I'd rather not have to do something like this:

$("myForm").validate({
  messages: { myField1: { required: '' }, myField2: { required: '' }, myField3: { required: '' }}
});

Answer 1

You can simply set the default required message to empty string.

$.validator.messages.required = '';