jQuery validation: change default error message

Question

Is there a simple way to change the default error values in the jQuery validation plugin?

I just want to rewrite the error messages to be more personal to my app--I have a lot of fields, so I don't want to set the message individually for field x...I know I can do that!

Answer 1

Add this code in a separate file/script included after the validation plugin to override the messages, edit at will :)

jQuery.extend(jQuery.validator.messages, {     required: "This field is required.",     remote: "Please fix this field.",     email: "Please enter a valid email address.",     url: "Please enter a valid URL.",     date: "Please enter a valid date.",     dateISO: "Please enter a valid date (ISO).",     number: "Please enter a valid number.",     digits: "Please enter only digits.",     creditcard: "Please enter a valid credit card number.",     equalTo: "Please enter the same value again.",     accept: "Please enter a value with a valid extension.",     maxlength: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter no more than {0} characters."),     minlength: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter at least {0} characters."),     rangelength: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter a value between {0} and {1} characters long."),     range: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter a value between {0} and {1}."),     max: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter a value less than or equal to {0}."),     min: jQuery.validator.format("Please enter a value greater than or equal to {0}.") }); 

Answer 2

You can specify your own messages in the validate call. Lifting and abbreviating this code from the Remember the Milk signup form used in the Validation plugin documentation (http://jquery.bassistance.de/validate/demo/milk/), you can easily specify your own messages:

var validator = $("#signupform").validate({     rules: {         firstname: "required",         lastname: "required",         username: {             required: true,             minlength: 2,             remote: "users.php"         }     },     messages: {         firstname: "Enter your firstname",         lastname: "Enter your lastname",         username: {             required: "Enter a username",             minlength: jQuery.format("Enter at least {0} characters"),             remote: jQuery.format("{0} is already in use")         }     } }); 

The complete API for validate(...) : http://jqueryvalidation.org/validate