There are multiple methods for setting and clearing messages within forms, both at the top of the user interface (similar to the behavior of the server-side APIs: gs.addInfoMessage() and gs.addErrorMessage()), and against specific fields.
These methods are: showFieldMsg(), hideFieldMsg(), showErrorBox(), and hideErrorBox().
These methods of the g_form API are extremely useful for communicating information to the user from client scripts or UI policies, such as whether or not a field meets certain validation criteria.
One such set of field-level methods of the GlideForm (g_form) API, are showFieldMsg() and hideFieldMsg(), and the nearly-identical showErrorBox() and hideErrorBox(). These APIs ...