errorMessagePosition suggestion

[FDVS]

I'm going to need the error messages to display in a "helping" sidebar, for a certain form, so I would like the option to do something like:

...
errorMessagePosition : '#sidebar' //or any other id ideally
...

and send the div into this specific place. I will try to implement this, however I am a novice programmer and might get something wrong. So I decided to post it as an improvement suggestion, while I try to get it to work.

[kirbs-]

You should be able to do this with CSS. Just override .hasError.

[FDVS]

The way I see it, the error messages are either appended to the input elements or to the beginning of the form (top). I know I could set the class' position with CSS, but I would like it to push the rest of the content in that sidebar as it was placed there.

I could however try to move the class with jQuery in the onError event, removing it from wherever it shows up at and appending/prepending it to the sidebar's appropriate "error" div.

I'm not sure if that's what you mean by overriding the class with CSS (just adjusting position) or if you have some tricks I don't know about. Could you give me a simple example?

[aponski]

Option to set where to display error message (.form-error span) would be a lifesaver. I use jQuery-Form-Validator with other plugins like Bootstrap datetimepicker or Jasny Bootstrap fileinput. Both plugins wraps input in their own divs, and it causes problems with showing validation errors messages.

I also tried to move error message after validation with jquery but it did not work:
$('#offer_realization_from').bind('validation', function(evt, isValid) {
$(".form-error").detach().appendTo('#datetimepicker1-msg');
});

[victorjonsson]

You can now declare an element where all error messages should be placed

$.validate({
  errorMessagePosition: $('#sidebar')
});

• Note that you must declare a jQuery-object, you can not use a string with an ID-reference*

[victorjonsson]

This is fixed as of version 2.1.47, let me know if you have any problems