I'm messing around with data annotations. When I click on a link to go to a page, the validation messages are being displayed, but I would like to have the validation messages not show unless data has been posted.
View:
@Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.EmailAddress, new { @placeholder = "Enter Email", @class = "form-control" })
@Html.ValidationSummary(true, "Registration Failed. Check your credentials")
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.EmailAddress, "You must enter a valid Email Address.")
Model:
[Required(ErrorMessage = "Email is required")]
[DataType(DataType.EmailAddress)]
[EmailAddress]
[Display(Name = "Email Address: ")]
public string EmailAddress { get; set; }
Controller:
[HttpGet]
public ActionResult AddUser()
{
return View();
}
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult AddUser(UserCreateViewModel user)
{
if (ModelState.IsValid)
{
var success = UserRepository.AddUser(user);
if (success)
{
return View("Success");
}
}
return View("AddUser");
}
Like I said, my problem occurs on page load of the AddUser view. When I click on the link to view the AddUser page, validation messages are showing after it loads, yet at this point no data has been posted and the model is empty.