Title: error display
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# error display

 *  Resolved [brighella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brighella/)
 * (@brighella)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-display-1/)
 * Hi everybody!
 * I’ve a problem with CF7, it was also before the las version of WP.
    When I make
   some error in the form or I let some required field empty, it show to me errors
   inside the field and, when I click on it, it doesn’t go away, so I cannot see
   what I write inside. Can you check, please? Here the link:
 * [http://www.masseriamazzetta.it/contattaci#modulo](http://www.masseriamazzetta.it/contattaci#modulo)
 * Thank you very much
 * Brì
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/contact-form-7/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-display-1/#post-4830596)
 * Theme issue. Try switching to the default theme.
 *  Thread Starter [brighella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brighella/)
 * (@brighella)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-display-1/#post-4830597)
 * Thank you for answer.
    I’ve no default theme installed but also if I did, I would
   lose all settings and editings I did. Can you please give me an other solution?
   Thank you very much.
 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-display-1/#post-4830612)
 * Then contact the theme seller and ask to fix it.
 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-display-1/#post-4830680)
 * Floating validation tip has been removed for accessibility improvement. See the
   changelog of [v3.6](http://contactform7.com/2013/12/12/contact-form-7-36/).
 * See [http://contactform7.com/customizing-validation-error-messages/](http://contactform7.com/customizing-validation-error-messages/)
 * See also [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-dont-disappear-when-trying-to-correct-form-field](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/validation-errors-dont-disappear-when-trying-to-correct-form-field)
 *  Thread Starter [brighella](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brighella/)
 * (@brighella)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-display-1/#post-4830683)
 * Thank you very much!
 * I’ve added this code before
    </head> and it works!
 *     ```
       <script type="text/javascript">
       jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
       	// clear cf7 error msg on mouseover
       	$(".wpcf7-form-control-wrap").mouseover(function(){
       		$obj = $("span.wpcf7-not-valid-tip",this);
           	        $obj.css('display','none');
       	});
       });
       </script>
       ```
   
 *  [seinnichts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seinnichts/)
 * (@seinnichts)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-display-1/#post-4830719)
 * I’m not sure why you felt it was okay to mark this one as resolved. It’s not 
   very resolved when you have to jam some workaround into the document head, either
   into a template or register and enqueue it and get it to show up in the right
   place. Most WP admins aren’t developers.
 * Maybe you’re comfortable by just blaming themes or other plugins and just letting
   your user-base figure this out on their own by stumbling on this “solution,” 
   but that’s not the reputation for support I’ve heard from the many people who
   use CF7. People say it’s fantastic… but this way of handling this issue is a 
   brush-off.
 * What theme includes form validation scripts that intentionally put validation
   errors IN the form field and then make it impossible for the message to disappear
   when you focus on the field again? And, if you use placeholder text, then you
   have a validation error that won’t go away and placeholder text that won’t go
   away. I can’t think of a better way to drive prospects or customers or clients
   to abandon the form. It’s marketing genius!
 * Pardon the sarcasm, I guess, but there’s too much blaming themes and plugins 
   and the WP core as the solution to everything.
 * I hope you will officially address this and figure out how to fix it and incorporate
   the fix in an update that includes the issue in the version update details as
   a debugged bug, and not just mark the issue “resolved.” That would be good customer
   support.
 *  [Neil Murray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buzztone/)
 * (@buzztone)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-display-1/#post-4830721)
 * [@seinnichts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seinnichts/) – the plugin author
   has discussed this issue extensively at [http://contactform7.com/customizing-validation-error-messages/](http://contactform7.com/customizing-validation-error-messages/)
 *  [seinnichts](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seinnichts/)
 * (@seinnichts)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-display-1/#post-4830727)
 * I appreciate your take on the matter. If users visit that page they will not 
   find an “extensive” discussion; they will find a couple paragraphs that discuss
   the two ways you can display validation errors. If you use the first method, 
   there’s a warning that you might experience some formatting issues if you use
   inline form fields and there’s a paragraph about how to use the floating “tooltip”
   style validation messages instead but the author recommends not using floating
   tooltip messages because of poor accessibility.
 * The discussion in this thread is not about problems with inline form field validation
   nor is is about floating tooltip validation messages and how to make them more
   accessible.
 * This discussion is about css, javascript, jQuery, ajax, namespacing, editing 
   templates or adding scripts to compensate for CF7’s inability to customize validation
   error messages under circumstances that will only become more common – keeping
   track of your plugin’s dependencies and keeping your code inline with changes
   being made to the WP core and recent versions of php.
 * Maybe you meant to point to a different FAQ or documentation url…
 * But again, thanks for the suggestion!
 *  Plugin Author [Takayuki Miyoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/takayukister/)
 * (@takayukister)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-display-1/#post-4830728)
 * We are not discussing anything in this thread. This thread is opened by brighella,
   and he has marked this [resolved]. Open your own thread if you have problems.
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome#Where_To_Post)

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