Form Validation

[eluser]Bart v B[/eluser]
Youre raping CI

There is no need to do that in that way..

Just add an form_error() where you want to echo the error..

Code:

<p>
    &lt;?php echo form_error('email');?&gt;
    <label for="email">E-mail</label><br />&lt;?php echo form_input($email); ?&gt;
  </p>

in youre controller:

Code:

$this->form_validation->set_rules('email', 'email', 'trim|required|valid_email|strip_tags');
$this->form_validation->set_error_delimiters('<div class="error">','</div>');

And at last you want some color on the error that were doing with CSS:
[code]
.error {
color:#ff0000;
}
[code]

That's all