Better Form Errors

Overview

This module changes Drupal form validation error messages to a better readable format with a stylable field name.

Drupal core or contributed modules such as Webform may print error messages on server-side form validation for certain fields. For example, if a form containing a required field called REQUIRED FIELD is submitted without a value for that field, server-side validation will lead to the following HTML error message:

  REQUIRED FIELD field is required.

The field name may not be easily distinguished from the rest of the message. This module changes the HTML code of the message to:

  The field <span class="message-field" lang="en">REQUIRED FIELD</span> is required.

Since the field name is spanned within a class ("message-field"), it can be styled to be easily distinguished from the rest of the message. The module comes with a style sheet that styles the field name in italic font. Of course, you can change the style to what you like in your own style sheet.

Features

• Clean source code:
• Does not trigger any error/warning/notice message by PHP 5.4 on all possible error levels.
• Does not trigger any warning by the Coder Review module on the "minor" severity warning level.
• Does not trigger any Interface text translatability warning.
• Interface is fully translatable. As of version 7.x-1.0, the complete German translation is available on localize.drupal.org.
• Comes with complete documentation and integrated help.
• Zero configuration required.
• The module provided replacement rules can be overridden by other modules.

Background

I have written this module because the problem #202393: Wrap field name within error message on required and maxlength fields into a class won't be fixed in Drupal 7 core.