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HTML

<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.13.1/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<form id="yourform">
    <input name="field1" type="text" /><br/>
    <input name="field2" type="text" /><br/>
    <input name="field3" type="text" /><br/>
    <input type="submit" />
</form>

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {

    $('#yourform').validate({
        errorElement: "span",
        errorClass: "field-error",
        rules: {
            field1: {
                required: true
            },
            field2: {
                required: true
            },
            field3: {
                required: true
            }
        },
        messages: {
            field1: {
                required: "There is an error in the field 1"
            },
            field2: {
                required: "Some other error message"
            },
            field3: {
                required: "There is an error in the field 3"
            }
        }
    });

});