Hi, is there a fix for this problem? It is frustrating for the user to have the question validation messages pop up, even when they have not answered yet. I have attached a screenshot of the issue - the message pops up the moment the participants click "start"

The messages you are referring to are "question tips" and/or "EM tips".
For individual questions, you can set "Hide tip" to Yes in advanced question settings.
Suppressing them all is done in your template.css file by adding some code at the end: I believe this will work in any current version (2.6.4lts, 2.x and 3.x beta...).

Thanks there - I have hidden the question tips (which are a different thing); these ones are question EM errors - it seems that EM is throwing an error even though the question was not even submitted yet.

<div class="col-sm-12 questionvalidcontainer">
<div class="questionhelp text-danger tip-was-hidden" role="alert" id="vmsg_1740" style="">
<div id="vmsg_1740_sum_range" class="em_sum_range emtip error">

<span class="fa fa-exclamation-circle" aria-hidden="true"></span>
The sum must equal 100.</div>
<div id="vmsg_1740_value_integer" class="em_value_integer emtip good">

<span class="fa fa-exclamation-circle" aria-hidden="true"></span>
Only integer values may be entered in these fields.</div>
</div>

</div>

What kind of template are you using? If not a standard template that comes shipped with LS: try it with one of the standard templates and see what happens?
What version of LS are you using? Can you show an example? My guess is that this is some kind of problem with your questionnaire, because otherwise we would have a lot more discussion about this here in the forum.

Hi,

I switched to the standard template but the error popped up still. Version 2.67.3+170728. My site is at psych.work/survey - thank you so much

R

There are a javascript system in default template to show tip even if hidden (in fact : hide valid tip, show error type).
github.com/LimeSurvey/LimeSurvey/blob/ma...pts/template.js#L185

Delete this part and see what happen.

Thanks Denis - would this mean the validation tip would not appear anymore even if it needs to?

For such behaviour , have exactly needed solution, i like to use Sub-question validation equation + the tip with some {if(empty(self),"",if(self<0,"Need to be up to 0",""))}

Ok I'll give it a try and keep updated - why does this behavior occur though? Is it a bug with template.js?

Not really … i think yes, but it's the default behaviour from default template.