Take a look at the available options: http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/validate#options
The one you should start with is showErrors. The default displays the inline messages, and by overriding it, you should be able to join the error messages into a string and put that into an altert. Jörn On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 6:46 AM, Bibin<bibin.balakrish...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > I am new to jquery and wanted to use jauery validate plugin in my > project. But I have seen that jquery displays errors as inline > messages.But in order to remain backward compatibility in my project, > I have to show the error messages as an alert, ie all error messages > aggregated into a single message.Is there any way by which I can > customise this in the plugin.I think I can get a hanlde of all the > error messages,and publish it as an alert, rather modifying the dom to > show as inline messages.Any pointer into this will be helpful. Thanks > in advance >