Spry validation textfield errors are appearing as regular text

Question

I am trying to create a simple email contact form using two spry validation text fields and one spry validation textarea. I inserted a spry validation text field called "Name", and then a second below it called "email" and then a spry validation textarea called "message" I gave the email field an email validation to come on at Blur, and a textarea character count validation of no more than 400 characters. The problem is that the error messages are appearing as soon as the page is loaded, they are bypassing their initial states. They say: "A value is required.Invalid format." and "A value is required.Exceeded maximum number of characters."

Answer 1

I build a sample a while ago that shows you how to generate and destroy validations on the fly.
http://www.spry-it.com/examples/spry-widget-validation-generation-and-destroy/
Check out the source for how its done.