Validate - Error Placement

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10723462/jquery-form-validation-define-container-for-errors

HTML

<script src="http://ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jquery.validate/1.9/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
<form id="form">

<div id="mynewID">Error up here

</div>
<br/>
    <ul>
        <li>
    <label for="name">Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="name" id="name" />

    <span id="errorname" class="error"></span>
                </li>
        <li>
    <label for="firstname">First Name: </label>
    <input id="firstname" type="text" name="firstname" />
    <span id="errorfirstname" class="error"></span>
        </li>
</ul>
<input type="submit" />
</form>

CSS

.error { color: red; }

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function() {
    $("#form").validate({
        rules: {
            name: {
                required: true
            },
            firstname: {
                required: true
            }
        },
        messages: {
            name: {
                required: "Enter name"
            },
            firstname: {
                required: "Enter firstname"
            }
        },
        errorPlacement: function (error, $element) {
            var input__id = $element.prop( 'id' );
            
            $( "#mynewID" ).append( error );

//          $error.insertAfter( $element.parent() );

           
        }
//      errorPlacement: function( error, element ) {
//          errorText = error.text();
//          element.parent().siblings( '.your-help-label' ).text( errorText );
//      }
    });
});