Contact Form 7 Select Required Error Message Position Issue

Hi,

Within my form I have the following required select:

<p><b>Please select a School (required)</b>
[select* school_selection first_as_label “— Please make a selection —” “School A” “School B”]</p>

The issue I am having is that when I don’t make a selection and press the “Submit” button on the form, the red error message validation “Please fill in the required field” appears to the right of the select field and not underneath it like it does on a required text field.

Unsure why this is happening.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

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