I have a form on which I am using jquery.validate. I initially call validate with a set of rules and custom messages...
$(\"#formName\").validate( { rules: {
as an answer to this old issue, I do like this to get the meassges inside the rules object.
After you have added the rules you can add messages like this:
var inputRules = $('input').rules(); inputRules.messages = {required: 'your message'};
Good luck!