jQuery Validate custom messages

Question

I have an input that I want to display a custom error message on when the user doesn\'t fill it out.

Answer 1

Use:

data-msg-required="Please enter something here!"

Here's a demo HTML code: https://github.com/jzaefferer/jquery-validation/blob/master/demo/custom-messages-data-demo.html

JS Fiddle demo: http://jsfiddle.net/leniel/VuPPy/48/