How to customize Html.ValidationMessageFor in ASP MVC

Question

Is it possible to customize the Html.ValidationMessageFor method so that it produces different HTML?

I want to do something similar to:

Answer 1

Maybe you can put that code

string propertyName = ExpressionHelper.GetExpressionText(expression);
string name = helper.AttributeEncode(helper.ViewData.TemplateInfo.GetFullHtmlFieldName(propertyName));

if (helper.ViewData.ModelState[name] == null ||
    helper.ViewData.ModelState[name].Errors == null ||
    helper.ViewData.ModelState[name].Errors.Count == 0)
    {
        return MvcHtmlString.Empty;
    }

on top of the answered function, so that the div doesn't appear on the form load.