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Java Spring with Hibernate User Messages in Spring Displaying Validation Messages

Anish Palan
Anish Palan
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Posted by Anish Palan
Anish Palan
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Why do we append 'error' instead of 'error-message' classname?

When in the div element you give the condition and if that is satisfied we want to append a class which you give as 'error'. My question is why dont we give the 'error-message' class name because that is the name of the class which is displaying the error message. And where does the 'error' class comes into picture?

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Chris Ramacciotti
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Hi Anish! I use the error class name for the enclosing div so that it aligns with CSS I've written to style the error messages. I don't like to use the same class names for nested elements, so this helps differentiate between the enclosing div and its message. So, really it's all for CSS. You can see those styles here:

https://github.com/treehouse/giflib-hibernate/blob/master/src/main/resources/static/app.css#L547