I have a TextBox
which i use to store a url to applied a <asp:HyperLink>
control. What i want to do is fire off the RequiredFieldValidator
when the TextBox.Text
value is empty and the user clicks save. As far as i can tell, my logic is OK, but the validator isn't firing off?
Here's the markup:
<div class="frmRow">
<div class="frmControls">
<asp:Label ID="lblLink" AssociatedControlID="txtImgUrl" runat="server" Text="Image URL"></asp:Label>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="imgUrlValidator" runat="server" ControlToValidate="txtImgUrl" ErrorMessage="Enter a Valid URL" />
<asp:TextBox ID="txtImgUrl" runat="server" />
</div>
<div class="clearBoth"></div>
</div>
Here is the code to check a valid absolute URL which is inside my btnSave
event:
Uri url;
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(txtImgUrl.Text))
{
txtImgUrl.Text = Uri.TryCreate(txtImgUrl.Text, UriKind.Absolute, out url) ? url.AbsoluteUri : string.Empty;
}
Save button markup:
<br class="clearBoth" />
<asp:Button ID="btnSave" Text="Save Case study" ImageUrl="~/Assets/Design/buttons/btn-update.gif" CssClass="btn fltr" runat="server" OnClick="btnSave_OnClick" />
<div class="clearBoth"></div>
Shouldn't the RequiredFieldValidator
be fired off when TryCreate
fails on a dodgy URL and txtImgUrl.Text = ""
?
Is there something blatantly obvious that I'm missing here?
Any help is much appreciated