<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>Display</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="demo.css"> <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery/1.12.3/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="../dist/jquery.validator.js?local=en"></script> </head> <body> <form class="form" data-validator-option="{timely:2}"> <h3>Default behavior</h3> <p class="note">data-rule="required"</p> <div class="form-item"> <input type="text" name="name" data-rule="required"> </div> <div class="form-item"> <button type="submit">Submit</button> </div> </form> <form class="form" data-validator-option="{timely:2}"> <h3>Set the field display by rule string</h3> <p class="note">data-rule="Name: required"</p> <div class="form-item"> <input type="text" name="name" data-rule="Name:required"> </div> <div class="form-item"> <button type="submit">Submit</button> </div> </form> <form class="form" data-validator-option="{timely:2}"> <h3>Set the field display by bind display</h3> <p class="note">data-rule="required" data-display="Name"</p> <div class="form-item"> <input type="text" name="name" data-rule="required" data-display="Name"> </div> <div class="form-item"> <button type="submit">Submit</button> </div> </form> <form class="form" id="form4"> <h3>Dynamic get field display.</h3> <div class="form-item"> <label class="label">Name</label> <input type="text" name="name" data-rule="required"> </div> <div class="form-item"> <button type="submit">Submit</button> </div> </form> <script> $('#form4').validator({ timely:2, display: function(el) { return $(el).closest('.form-item').find('label.label').text(); } }); </script> </body> </html>