diff --git a/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers/ValidationMessageTagHelper.cs b/src/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers/ValidationMessageTagHelper.cs
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+// Copyright (c) Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+
+using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Rendering;
+using Microsoft.AspNet.Razor.Runtime.TagHelpers;
+using Microsoft.AspNet.Razor.TagHelpers;
+
+namespace Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// <see cref="ITagHelper"/> implementation targeting &lt;span&gt; elements with <c>validation-for</c> attributes.
+    /// </summary>
+    [TagName("span")]
+    [ContentBehavior(ContentBehavior.Modify)]
+    public class ValidationMessageTagHelper : TagHelper
+    {
+        [Activate]
+        private ViewContext ViewContext { get; set; }
+
+        [Activate]
+        private IHtmlGenerator Generator { get; set; }
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// Name to be validated on the current model.
+        /// </summary>
+        [HtmlAttributeName("validation-for")]
+        public ModelExpression For { get; set; }
+
+        /// <inheritdoc />
+        public override void Process(TagHelperContext context, TagHelperOutput output)
+        {
+            if (For != null)
+            {
+                var tagBuilder = Generator.GenerateValidationMessage(ViewContext,
+                                                                     For.Name,
+                                                                     message: null,
+                                                                     tag: null,
+                                                                     htmlAttributes: null);
+
+                if (tagBuilder != null)
+                {
+                    output.MergeAttributes(tagBuilder);
+
+                    // We check for whitespace to detect scenarios such as:
+                    // <span validation-for="Name">
+                    // </span>
+                    if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(output.Content))
+                    {
+                        output.Content = tagBuilder.InnerHtml;
+                    }
+                }
+            }
+        }
+    }
+}
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diff --git a/test/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers.Test/ValidationMessageTagHelperTest.cs b/test/Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers.Test/ValidationMessageTagHelperTest.cs
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+// Copyright (c) Microsoft Open Technologies, Inc. All rights reserved.
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0. See License.txt in the project root for license information.
+
+using System.Collections.Generic;
+using System.IO;
+using System.Reflection;
+using System.Threading.Tasks;
+using Microsoft.AspNet.Http;
+using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.ModelBinding;
+using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Razor;
+using Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.Rendering;
+using Microsoft.AspNet.Razor.Runtime.TagHelpers;
+using Microsoft.AspNet.Routing;
+using Moq;
+using Xunit;
+
+namespace Microsoft.AspNet.Mvc.TagHelpers
+{
+    public class ValidationMessageTagHelperTest
+    {
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task ProcessAsync_GeneratesExpectedOutput()
+        {
+            // Arrange
+            var metadataProvider = new DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider();
+            var modelExpression = CreateModelExpression("Name");
+            var validationMessageTagHelper = new ValidationMessageTagHelper
+            {
+                For = modelExpression
+            };
+
+            var tagHelperContext = new TagHelperContext(
+                allAttributes: new Dictionary<string, object>
+                {
+                    { "id", "myvalidationmessage" },
+                    { "for", modelExpression },
+                });
+            var output = new TagHelperOutput(
+                "original tag name",
+                attributes: new Dictionary<string, string>
+                {
+                    { "id", "myvalidationmessage" }
+                },
+                content: "Something");
+            var htmlGenerator = new TestableHtmlGenerator(metadataProvider);
+            var viewContext = TestableHtmlGenerator.GetViewContext(model: null,
+                                                                   htmlGenerator: htmlGenerator,
+                                                                   metadataProvider: metadataProvider);
+
+            var activator = new DefaultTagHelperActivator();
+            activator.Activate(validationMessageTagHelper, viewContext);
+
+            // Act
+            await validationMessageTagHelper.ProcessAsync(tagHelperContext, output);
+
+            // Assert
+            Assert.Equal(4, output.Attributes.Count);
+            var attribute = Assert.Single(output.Attributes, kvp => kvp.Key.Equals("id"));
+            Assert.Equal("myvalidationmessage", attribute.Value);
+            attribute = Assert.Single(output.Attributes, kvp => kvp.Key.Equals("class"));
+            Assert.Equal("field-validation-valid", attribute.Value);
+            attribute = Assert.Single(output.Attributes, kvp => kvp.Key.Equals("data-valmsg-for"));
+            Assert.Equal("Name", attribute.Value);
+            attribute = Assert.Single(output.Attributes, kvp => kvp.Key.Equals("data-valmsg-replace"));
+            Assert.Equal("true", attribute.Value);
+            Assert.Equal("Something", output.Content);
+            Assert.Equal("original tag name", output.TagName);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task ProcessAsync_CallsIntoGenerateValidationMessageWithExpectedParameters()
+        {
+            // Arrange
+            var validationMessageTagHelper = new ValidationMessageTagHelper
+            {
+                For = CreateModelExpression("Hello")
+            };
+            var output = new TagHelperOutput(
+                "span",
+                attributes: new Dictionary<string, string>(),
+                content: "Content of validation message");
+            var expectedViewContext = CreateViewContext();
+            var generator = new Mock<IHtmlGenerator>();
+            generator
+                .Setup(mock => 
+                    mock.GenerateValidationMessage(expectedViewContext, "Hello", null, null, null))
+                .Returns(new TagBuilder("span"))
+                .Verifiable();
+
+            SetViewContextAndGenerator(validationMessageTagHelper, expectedViewContext, generator.Object);
+
+            // Act & Assert
+            await validationMessageTagHelper.ProcessAsync(context: null, output: output);
+
+            generator.Verify();
+            Assert.Equal("span", output.TagName);
+            Assert.Empty(output.Attributes);
+            Assert.Equal("Content of validation message", output.Content);
+        }
+
+        [Theory]
+        [InlineData("Content of validation message", "Content of validation message")]
+        [InlineData("\r\n  \r\n", "New HTML")]
+        public async Task ProcessAsync_MergesTagBuilderFromGenerateValidationMessage(
+            string outputContent, string expectedOutputContent)
+        {
+            // Arrange
+            var validationMessageTagHelper = new ValidationMessageTagHelper
+            {
+                For = CreateModelExpression("Hello")
+            };
+            var output = new TagHelperOutput(
+                "span",
+                attributes: new Dictionary<string, string>(),
+                content: outputContent);
+            var tagBuilder = new TagBuilder("span2")
+            {
+                InnerHtml = "New HTML"
+            };
+            tagBuilder.Attributes.Add("data-foo", "bar");
+            tagBuilder.Attributes.Add("data-hello", "world");
+
+            var expectedViewContext = CreateViewContext();
+            var generator = new Mock<IHtmlGenerator>(MockBehavior.Strict);
+            var setup = generator
+                .Setup(mock => mock.GenerateValidationMessage(
+                    It.IsAny<ViewContext>(),
+                    It.IsAny<string>(),
+                    It.IsAny<string>(),
+                    It.IsAny<string>(),
+                    It.IsAny<object>()))
+                .Returns(tagBuilder);
+
+            SetViewContextAndGenerator(validationMessageTagHelper, expectedViewContext, generator.Object);
+
+            // Act
+            await validationMessageTagHelper.ProcessAsync(context: null, output: output);
+
+            // Assert
+            Assert.Equal(output.TagName, "span");
+            Assert.Equal(2, output.Attributes.Count);
+            var attribute = Assert.Single(output.Attributes, kvp => kvp.Key.Equals("data-foo"));
+            Assert.Equal("bar", attribute.Value);
+            attribute = Assert.Single(output.Attributes, kvp => kvp.Key.Equals("data-hello"));
+            Assert.Equal("world", attribute.Value);
+            Assert.Equal(expectedOutputContent, output.Content);
+        }
+
+        [Fact]
+        public async Task ProcessAsync_DoesNothingIfNullFor()
+        {
+            // Arrange
+            var validationMessageTagHelper = new ValidationMessageTagHelper();
+            var output = new TagHelperOutput(
+                "span",
+                attributes: new Dictionary<string, string>(),
+                content: "Content of validation message");
+            var expectedViewContext = CreateViewContext();
+            var generator = new Mock<IHtmlGenerator>(MockBehavior.Strict);
+
+            SetViewContextAndGenerator(validationMessageTagHelper, expectedViewContext, generator.Object);
+
+            // Act
+            await validationMessageTagHelper.ProcessAsync(context: null, output: output);
+
+            // Assert
+            Assert.Equal("span", output.TagName);
+            Assert.Empty(output.Attributes);
+            Assert.Equal("Content of validation message", output.Content);
+        }
+
+        private static ModelExpression CreateModelExpression(string name)
+        {
+            return new ModelExpression(
+                name,
+                new ModelMetadata(
+                    new Mock<IModelMetadataProvider>().Object,
+                    containerType: null,
+                    modelAccessor: null,
+                    modelType: typeof(object),
+                    propertyName: string.Empty));
+        }
+
+        private static ViewContext CreateViewContext()
+        {
+            var actionContext = new ActionContext(
+                new Mock<HttpContext>().Object,
+                new RouteData(),
+                new ActionDescriptor());
+
+            return new ViewContext(
+                actionContext,
+                Mock.Of<IView>(),
+                new ViewDataDictionary(
+                    new DataAnnotationsModelMetadataProvider()),
+                new StringWriter());
+        }
+
+        private static void SetViewContextAndGenerator(ITagHelper tagHelper,
+                                                       ViewContext viewContext,
+                                                       IHtmlGenerator generator)
+        {
+            var tagHelperType = tagHelper.GetType();
+
+            tagHelperType.GetProperty("ViewContext", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance)
+                         .SetValue(tagHelper, viewContext);
+            tagHelperType.GetProperty("Generator", BindingFlags.NonPublic | BindingFlags.Instance)
+                         .SetValue(tagHelper, generator);
+        }
+    }
+}
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