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Module Stability (8.x or greater) Usage Notes Module Updated Info as of
Better Messages stable 1,964
  • Implements a standard jQuery implementation without other modules or plugins dependencies.
  • Displays messages in customizable in-browser HUD popup.
  • Provides different settings to control animation effects, position, auto-close counter, draggable messages and more.
  • 2025-05-20 (2.0.3) 2026-04-20
    Dismiss alpha 1,440 Adds a jQuery-powered "Dismiss" button to each group of messages. 2024-04-16 (1.0-alpha1) 2026-04-20
    Cool message stable (unsupported) 147 "Provides a beautiful display of system messages (errors, warning, etc.)." 2021-09-24 2026-04-20
    Inline Form Errors part of core - Moves selected messages near the form they apply to. - 2026-04-20
    Nice Messages dev 594 Displays Facebook like messages smoothly in a stylable in-browser HUD popup using famous jGrowl jQuery plugin with very small size (6kb) and also IE6 support. Settings to control color, shadow, animation effects, position, autoclose timing, toggling on a user/role/path basis and more. Smooth fall back to system default. 2016-03-29 2026-04-20
    Purr Messages unstable 170 Displays messages in an in-browser HUD popup. - 2026-04-20
    Noty Messages unstable - Noty Messages is a library that brings in cuztomization available in the noty jQuery plugin into drupal, and allows the the library's rendering of messages overtake Drupal's default message theming style. 2019-09-25 2026-04-20
    Clientside Validation stable 22,007
  • This module adds clientside validation (aka "Ajax form validation") for all forms and webforms using jquery.validate.
  • Also enables error messages to be displayed inline
  • 2025-02-11 (4.1.2) 2026-04-20
    Timed Messages alpha 22
  • hide messages after optical timer runs out
  • messages can be displayed again later on
  • little bit of improvement on the css
  • separate settings for message types
  • 2015-12-09 (1.0-alpha3) 2026-04-20

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    Module 8.x? Usage Notes Module Updated Info as of
    Disable Messages stable 11,464 Gives a site owner options to disable specific messages shown to end users (regex, exact match, role-specific, user-specific, path-specific, etc.). 2022-04-29 (2.1.1) 2026-04-20

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