Validator..How to stop the validation after the first field?

[Umar Hathab Abdullah]

Hi,
I have two text fields in my form. I am using the validator for the form validation.
What happens is that when I submit the form, I get the validation message for both the fields like " Name is required field,Password is required field".
Please write me how can I stop the validation so that I can display one one message.
Thanks,
Umar

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Umar,
You don't actually have to stop the validation. You just have to hide the messages. Instead of looping through the list of error messages, you can display the first one.

[Umar Hathab Abdullah]

Thanks Jeanne,
But will you tell me how this is possible when doing the client side javascript validation.
I would also like to know how we can hide the messages both for server side and client side validations.
I am new to validator and I wud greatly appreciate the help.
Regards,
Umar

[Rick Hightower]

Depends how good you are at JavaScript. (I am not the greatest at it, but get by).
You can customize the JavaScript that gets output to the browswer.
Look inside validator-rules.xml file in your WEB-INF directory.