Disabling jQuery Validation Error Messages

Quick tip.

There are many examples for the jQuery Validation Plugin, but I could't find one for disabling the error messages while still highlighting the corresponding fields.

After a bit of poking around I figured out the process is pretty straight forward. The jQuery Validation Plugin uses a dictionary to store the default error messages.

messages: {
	required: "This field is required.",
	remote: "Please fix this field.",
	email: "Please enter a valid email address.",
	url: "Please enter a valid URL.",
	date: "Please enter a valid date.",
	dateISO: "Please enter a valid date (ISO).",
	dateDE: "Bitte geben Sie ein gültiges Datum ein.",
	number: "Please enter a valid number.",
	numberDE: "Bitte geben Sie eine Nummer ein.",
	digits: "Please enter only digits",
	creditcard: "Please enter a valid credit card number.",
	equalTo: "Please enter the same value again.",
	accept: "Please enter a value with a valid extension.",
	maxlength: $.format("Please enter no more than {0} characters."),
	minlength: $.format("Please enter at least {0} characters."),
	rangelength: $.format("Please enter a value between {0} and {1} characters long."),
	range: $.format("Please enter a value between {0} and {1}."),
	max: $.format("Please enter a value less than or equal to {0}."),
	min: $.format("Please enter a value greater than or equal to {0}.")
}

To disable the output of an error message add the following lines of JavaScript to your page source:

$(document).ready(function() {
    // Override default error message
    jQuery.validator.messages.required = "";

    // Override generation of error label
    $("#form").validate({
        errorPlacement: function(error, element) {},
    });
}