They are meant to be separate but you really don't need the input. You could probably replace all those <p class="field input"> with <p class="field"> and everything would work fine. Visual Studio also has issues sometimes with the designer not updating new classes from stylesheets.

OK, that works and rids VS from showing a warning, but will the jquery in the global.js still be found.

Thanks for this, sorry for being a stickler for this bt I'm almost finished chapter 5 and there seems to so much good stuff in this that can be used acrross all applications, and appears to be the meat of all of MVC.

Yes, it will still work. If you look at the jquery it is saying to grab all form input fields with a class of field (.field says look for a class with the name of field).

$("form .field :input").blur(function () { HideMessage(this); });

Thanks