Without seeing your interface this is tough, but one suggestion would be to use the field itself to display the error message. Your note leads me to believe that your only validation is for a required field. If that is the case, this idea would work, otherwise I would explore some type of overlay.
Typically edit-in-pace has a simple action to invoke, like clicking on a section of text. Then that text is encapsulated in a textbox allowing the user to type. The change is committed by either a loss of focus on the textbox or with a dedicated save button (that only becomes visible once the "edit-in-place" is invoked). So... if you absolutely have no space at all, use your textbox to display your error message. You probably have enough space for the editable text to have a "This field is required" etc...I would set a different color for this message and have it go away when the user returns focus to the textbox (similar to a hint textbox, that would contain light colored instructions like "Enter your name" that go away once the user put focus on the textbox). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=35328 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
