"kukeltje" wrote : yes... use a 'globalOnly=true' on the top messages thing. Is a generic jsf issue though... Hi, Thanks for your response. This 'globalOnly=true' can be used with <h:messages> and as i don t want the default message at the top or not to be displayed so I am setting it as: <h:message globalOnly="false" /> but still on execution I am getting the error message at the top also as well as in the field level. I want the validation error messages to come on each field but not at the top in red(global) View the original post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4209360#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...