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HTML

<form action="cmxform" method="POST" action="" name="crtPDF" id="tool_sbmt">
         <table class="contentframework">
		   <tbody>
             <tr>
           		<td class="contentframework-formdatalabel"><label for="Company Name"><strong>Company Name:</strong> </label></td>
				<td><input id="comp-name" name="comp-name" class="contentframework-textfield" type="text" tabindex="1" /></td>
                
                <td class="contentframework-formdatalabel"><label for="Client Name"><strong>Client Name:</strong> </label></td>
				<td><input id="cli-name" name="cli-name" class="contentframework-textfield" type="text" tabindex="5" /></td>
		 	 </tr>
             <tr>
           		<td class="contentframework-formdatalabel"><label for="Company Address"><strong style="white-space:nowrap">Company Address:</strong></label></td>
				<td><input id="comp-add" name="comp-add" class="contentframework-textfield" type="text" tabindex="2" /></td>
                <td class="contentframework-formdatalabel"><label for="Client Address"><strong>Client Address:</strong></label></td>
				<td><input id="cli-add" name="cli-add" class="contentframework-textfield" type="text" tabindex="6" /></td>
		 	 </tr>
             <tr>
           		<td class="contentframework-formdatalabel">&nbsp;</td>
				<td><input id="comp-add2" name="comp-add2" class="contentframework-textfield" type="text" tabindex="3" /></td>
                <td class="contentframework-formdatalabel">&nbsp;</td>
				<td><input id="cli-add2" name="cli-add2" class="contentframework-textfield" type="text" tabindex="7" /></td>
		 	 </tr>
             <tr>
           		<td class="contentframework-formdatalabel"><label for="Company Email"><strong>Advisor:</strong></label></td>
				<td><input id="comp-advisor" name="comp-advisor" class="contentframework-textfield" type="text" tabindex="4" /></td>
                <td class="contentframework-formdatalabel">&nbsp;</td>
				<td>&nbsp;</td>
		 	 </tr>
             <tr>
          ...

CSS

#signupForm { width: 670px; }
#signupForm label.error {
	margin-left: 10px;
	width: auto;
	display: inline;
    color:red;
    font-size:90;
}

JavaScript

$.validator.setDefaults({
	submitHandler: function() { alert("submitted!"); }
});

$().ready(function() {
    $("#signupForm").validate({
		rules: {
			comp-name: "required",
			cli-name: "required",
			comp-email: {
				required: true,
				email: true
			},
			
		messages: {
			firstname: "Please enter your firstname",
			lastname: "Please enter your lastname",
			email: "Please enter a valid email address",
		}
	});
 });