To start with, take a look at the various options related to displaying messages: http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/validate
"Use errorClass, errorElement, wrapper, errorLabelContainer, errorContainer, showErrors, success, errorPlacement, highlight and unhighlight to control how invalid elements and error messages are displayed." "showErrors" is quite close to what you asked for, though I recomend to first look at the other options available, esepcially "errorPlacement", "errorContainer" and "errorLabelContainer". Usually that gets you quite far. Jörn On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Vish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am just getting started with the jQuery validation and was wondering > if someone can help me out with a question I had with using it. > > From what I read, the validation plug-in automatically adds and > removed the 'label' error tags into the page. For my requirements, I > need more customisability of the error message display. I want to be > able perform other things when an error is displayed like hide other > info messages etc when an error occurs. So, I was wondering if it > would be possible for me to just get a list of error messages back > from the validation plug-in instead having it inject the error > messages into the page for me. I would appreciate any help in this > regard. > > Thank You, > Vish >