Change the language of error message required

Question

Is it possible to change the language of the error message required? I know that I can add a message in my language required title="Message", but I want to change the languge of the default: please fill out this field. In other words: I do not want to supply a custom text. I want to force a language for the default messages.

I tried setting the lang attribute and also sent a Content-Language header but it always uses the browser's default language instead.

How can I do this? Thank you in advance.

ah it's quite incomplete your question can you elaborate? Show us what you are trying — fefe, Feb 13 '14 at 21:34

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 13 '14 at 21:46

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Since you're using HTML5 for validation, I'm assuming this only needs to support the latest browsers. So, you can use the JavaScript method setCustomValidity().

The string you supply to that method will change the error message for its member DOM element, which shows when the contents are invalid.

HTML:

<form>
    <input id="eml" type="email" required />
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

JavaScript:

document.getElementById('eml').setCustomValidity('Dude. That e-mail is whack!');

jsFiddle

answered Feb 13 '14 at 21:46

Alex W

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I dont know why it does not function. When I try it to jsFiddle,I copy paste my code it function, while in my application, it still remain :please fill out this field... What can I do? Please help me? – user3272713 Feb 13 '14 at 22:04
can you help me?What is my problem? – user3272713 Feb 13 '14 at 22:10
please @Alex...I dont know why this happen – user3272713 Feb 13 '14 at 22:18
@user3272713 Did you change the id to the `id` of your form element? – Alex W Feb 15 '14 at 01:39
Yes of course. But it still does not function....My code function online(jsFidle), but not in my application – user3272713 Feb 15 '14 at 02:12
This works great. For the newbies, you need to create a .js and to call it with a script tag like `` and simply paste the code given by Alex. – MagTun Jul 02 '15 at 08:50

Change the language of error message required

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