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# apex:pageMessages

This component displays all messages that were generated for all components on the current page, presented using the Salesforce styling.

Use this component to get user input for a controller method that does not correspond to a field on an sObject. Only `<apex:inputField>` and `<apex:outputField>` can be used with sObject fields.

## Example

```apex
<apex:page standardController="Opportunity" recordSetVar="opportunities"
    tabStyle="Opportunity" sidebar="false">
    <p>Enter an alphabetic character for the "Close Date," 
       then click Save to see what happens.</p>
    <apex:form >
        <apex:pageBlock >
        <apex:pageMessages />
        <apex:pageBlockButtons >
            <apex:commandButton value="Save" action="{!save}"/>
        </apex:pageBlockButtons>
            <apex:pageBlockTable value="{!opportunities}" var="opp">
                <apex:column value="{!opp.name}"/>
                <apex:column headerValue="Close Date">
                    <apex:inputField value="{!opp.closeDate}"/>
                </apex:column>
            </apex:pageBlockTable>
        </apex:pageBlock>
    </apex:form>
</apex:page>
```

## Attributes

|Attribute Name|Attribute Type|Description|Required?|API Version|Access|
|--------------|--------------|-----------|---------|-----------|------|
|`escape`|Boolean|A Boolean value that specifies whether sensitive HTML and XML characters should be escaped in the HTML output generated by this component. If you do not specify escape="false", the character escape sequence displays as written. Be aware that setting this value to "false" may be a security risk because it allows arbitrary content, including JavaScript, that could be used in a malicious manner.| |14.0||
|`id`|String|An identifier that allows the component to be referenced by other components in the page.| |14.0|global|
|`rendered`|Boolean|A Boolean value that specifies whether the component is rendered on the page. If not specified, this value defaults to true.| |14.0|global|
|`showDetail`|Boolean|A Boolean value that specifies whether to display the detail portion of the messages. If not specifed this value defaults to false.| |14.0||

**See Also**  


-   [apex:pageMessage](https://developer.salesforce.com/docs/platform/salesforce-pages-developers-guide/guide/pages-compref-pagemessage.md)