I'm using MVC3 with Razor.
I've included the following in my _Layout.cshtml:
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/MicrosoftMvcAjax.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/MicrosoftMvcValidation.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
My form looks like:
@{
ViewBag.Title = "Register";
Html.EnableClientValidation();
}
@using (Html.BeginForm("Register"))
{
<fieldset>
<p>
@Html.LabelFor(o => o.Email)
@Html.TextBoxFor(o => o.Email)
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(o => o.Email)
</p>
...
</fieldset>
}
My ViewModel has DataAnnotations (and implements IValidatableObject), and it validates during controller action. However I cannot seem to be able to use JS validation on the clientside without posting the form.
What am I missing?
In ASP.NET MVC 3 the jquery validation plugin is the default for performing client-side validation. So you could remove all Microsoft*.js
scripts from your project. You only need the following:
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-1.4.4.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
and remove the Html.EnableClientValidation();
call. Client validation is enabled in web.config:
<appSettings>
<add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true" />
<add key="UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled" value="true" />
</appSettings>
Remove the Html.EnableClientValidation(); and goto your web config, and make sure you have an appSetting that looks like the below:
<add key="ClientValidationEnabled" value="true"/>
Try adding the following lines to your view.
HtmlHelper.ClientValidationEnabled = true;
HtmlHelper.UnobtrusiveJavaScriptEnabled = true;
Along with including jquery-1.4.4.js, jquery.validate.js, jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js
I get it to work for my app but it seems not to kick in until I put in a bad value. For example
[Required(ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.WValidation), ErrorMessageResourceName = "TestCountRequired")]
[Range(1, Int32.MaxValue, ErrorMessageResourceType = typeof(Resources.WValidation), ErrorMessageResourceName = "TestCountRange")]
public int? TestCountThreshold { get; set; }
then i put in a 0 on the front-end and after that client side validation works flawlessly. I would like for validation to work for initial blank text boxes... It seems incorrect for the validation to wait until there is an attempted bad value.