No. Htmx supports extracting a subset of received HTML and merging it with the current page.

So, for a typical form, you _could_ do a request to validate the entire form then extract the relevant error message for the input field that triggered said request.

This would re-use most code of the actual form submit endpoint except it _only_ does the validation.

> And somehow keep it styled and matching all of the UI elements rendered on the frontend?

When using Htmx, the backend would typically own the frontend. So the styles and UI elements are already "matched" as it were.

> No thanks, I'll just give you data and you can present it however you please.

This makes sense when there are multiple frontends and/or consumers of the API. When there is exactly one API consumer, and that API consumer is the frontend, Htmx can save a lot of time by reducing the overall complexity of the project.