[fyrestorm]

I'm using the form validators that microsoft made available for us to use in .NET and I'm having a small problem with them.

I've got multiple forms on a page and multiple submit buttons. If I click submit on the form that doesn't contain the validators, the form with the validators is still activated. I.E. The form I'm not using gets validated.

Is there a way around this, something I'm missing perhaps?

Thanks

[PsychoCoder]

fyrestorm, on 6 Jun, 2007 - 06:03 AM, said:

I'm using the form validators that microsoft made available for us to use in .NET and I'm having a small problem with them.

I've got multiple forms on a page and multiple submit buttons. If I click submit on the form that doesn't contain the validators, the form with the validators is still activated. I.E. The form I'm not using gets validated.

Is there a way around this, something I'm missing perhaps?

Thanks

Are you saying you have multiple <form> tags on your page? If so you're only allowed to have a single <form> tag per page, this is one of the, in my opinion, drawbacks to ASP.Net.

As for the validation controls, ASP.Net web controls have a ValidationGroup Property so use that to tie those controls to a specific validation control/submit button.

Like say for example you have 2 "forms" on a page, one where the user can send you an email, the other where the user can submit a question, both have textboxes and such and both have a submit button. Use ASP: controls and set the ValidationGroup to "EMail" for the section where they can send an email (for all the controls for that process, even the ASP:Button) , then set the ValidationGroup Property to "Question" for the other section (once again all controls, even the ASP:Button control).

This will keep the 2 processes seperate and allow for multiple submit buttons for multiple processes on one page with a single <form> tag.

Hope this at least gets you down the path you're looking for

<edit> I;ve added a zip file with an aspx page that shows what I'm talking about with the ValidationGroup</edit>

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•  ValidationDemos.zip (1.75K)
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This post has been edited by PsychoCoder: 28 July 2007 - 01:44 PM

[skyhawk133]

Is that specific to ASP.NET? I've never seen the <form> tag limit in other languages...

[PsychoCoder]

skyhawk133, on 28 Jul, 2007 - 12:42 PM, said:

Is that specific to ASP.NET? I've never seen the <form> tag limit in other languages...

Yeah, it's specific to ASP.Net. In classic ASP you could have 100 <form> tags on a page if you wanted but not anymore. I believe thats why they added the ValidationGroup Property to .Net Web Controls.

Heres a link that talks about it

This post has been edited by PsychoCoder: 28 July 2007 - 01:48 PM