Jquery Validation plug-in custom error placement

Question

Using the jQuery Validation plug-in for the following form:

Answer 1

You can also manually add error labels in places you need them. In my particular case I had a more complex form with checkbox lists etc. where an insert or insert after would break the layout. Rather than doing this you can take advantage of the fact that the validation script will evaluate if an existing label tag exists for the specified field and use it.

Consider:

    Name: (*)
    

Now add the following line:

which is standard error label:

    Name: (*)
    


    

jQuery will use this label rather than generating a new one. Sorry I could not find any official documentation on this but found other posts that came across this behaviour.