Just a bunch of code

$('#form').validate({
errorLabelContainer:'#errorContainer',
showErrors: function(errorMap, errorList) {

if(errorList.length)
{
$('#errorContainer').html(errorList[0]['message']);
}
},
highlight:function(element,errorClass){
$(element).parent('td').addClass('error');
},
unhighlight:function(element,errorClass){
$(element).parent('td').removeClass('error');
}
})