jQuery Validate - Hide display validation error messages / show custom errors

Question

I'm using jQuery Validate, but I really don't want to have any error messages whatsoever. Rather, I need to have red boxes around offending inputs/selects/etc. These red boxes were a piece of cake to add, but I still cannot remove error messages themselves. How do I disable them altogether?

Answer 1

Use a custom error placement function (see the plugin's options) that doesn't append the error message to anything.

$('#form').validate({
  errorPlacement: function(error,element) {
    return true;
  }
});

Or you could put the error messages elsewhere on the page - say in a DIV at the top of the page.