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errorMessagesFor()

errorMessagesFor() — returns string

Available in: controller Category: Error Functions

Builds and returns a list (ul tag with a default class of error-messages) containing all the error messages for all the properties of the object. Returns an empty string if no errors exist.

NameTypeRequiredDefaultDescription
objectNamestringyesThe variable name of the object to display error messages for.
classstringnoerror-messagesCSS class to set on the ul element.
showDuplicatesbooleannotrueWhether or not to show duplicate error messages.
encodebooleannotrueWhen set to true, encodes tag content, attribute values, and URLs so that Cross Site Scripting (XSS) attacks can be prevented. Set to attributes to only encode attribute values and not tag content.