Why @Html.TextBoxFor
and other helpers would skip jquery.validation attributes and create elements without those? Am I missing some references or something? It's MVC 3.0 project.
If I add them manually like that:
@Html.TextBoxFor(x => x.Name,
new { data_val="true", data_val_required="Need that field" })
then unobtrusive validation works. But it's suppose build elements and put those attributes based on Model's DataAnnotations
. Model is there, textbox inside of a form body, and still doesn't work. What could it be?
upd: UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled
set to true
in web.config
Please ensure these two lines in your web.config file
<appSettings>
<add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" />
</appSettings>
For unobtrusive validation to work you need to ensure that UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled
is set to true
in your Web.config
and that you have included these 3 scripts:
- jQuery (~/Scripts/jquery-1.8.2.js)
- jQuery Validate (~/Scripts/jquery.validate.js)
- the MVC plugin for unobtrusive client validation with jQuery Validate (~/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js).
1.if the text box is loading via ajax, it's may not be parsed for Unobtrusive validation.
2.check rendered html if there is a data-val-required attribute for the text box to determine if it's a server side or client side problem.