Thanks for the help on getting started. I'd already started wading
through the source so you definitely saved me some time. I'm not
totally comfortable with Jquery yet but I'm getting there :). I'll
give this a go and see what happens. Should I just reply to this
thread to contribute/ask questions? or is there a better way?
On May 14, 12:07 pm, "Jörn Zaefferer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> It isn'T supported, yet. You could help getting it into the plugin by
> trying to implement it yourself, and contributing it back.
>
> To get started, take a look at the defaultMessage-method. Currently it
> looks for custom messages specified via options, then for the title
> attribute, then for default messages. You can access metadata via
> $(element).metadata().
> To be able to throw rules and messages together, you'd use the
> meta-option to "namespace" rules, eg.
> class="{rules:{required:true,email:true}, messages: {required:"yo",
> email:"no"}", then $(...).validate({ meta: "rules" })
>
> Hope this helps to get started.
>
> Jörn
>
> On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Dane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
>
> > I'm trying to build a web framework utilizing the great work thats
> > already been done on the validation plugin. I'm trying to use metadata
> > to specify my rules. I'm having a problem overriding the default
> > messages for multiple rules via metadata. It appears as though I can
> > only specify one generic message for all my rules on a given element
> > using the title attribute.
>
> > Is there a way use metadata to override error messages that I'm
> > overlooking? If not can this be added? Additionally, do we have to be
> > restricted to using the title attribute? Could we use custom
> > attributes? It seems like a common scenario and is supported by the
> > validate(option) method.
>
> > Thanks for any direction/feedback on this!
>
> > Keep up the great work!
> > Dane
