Validationsummary not showing onclick of button

Question

I am using ASP.NET 1.1 and I'm having problems with my validationsummary and validationcontrols working. On button click, required field validations, etc are not fired. How do I fix this?

Here's the code:

<asp:ValidationSummary id="EsppDataInputValidationSummary" runat="server" Font-Names="Arial" Font-Size="8pt" HeaderText="Please Correct the following error(s):" DisplayMode="List" ShowSummary="True"></asp:ValidationSummary></TD>

<asp:RequiredFieldValidator id="Validator1" runat="server" Font-Size="8pt" Font-Names="Arial"
ControlToValidate="txtPrice" Display="None" ErrorMessage="Please enter the Price"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

<asp:textbox onblur="return ValidateLength(this)" style="Z-INDEX: 0; TEXT-ALIGN: right" id="txtPurchasePrice" onkeypress="return IsValidChar(event);" onkeyup="return ValidateLength(this)" runat="server" Width="160px" MaxLength="10"></asp:textbox>

<asp:button id="btnAdd" runat="server" Text="Add"></asp:button>"

There could be several explanations to this, we would need to see your code... — Laurent S., Jul 03 '13 at 13:25
I meant all your relevant code... In aspx or codebehind as well. — Laurent S., Jul 03 '13 at 13:32
Well if that's all you got, then a first problem is that you set `ControlToValidate` to "txtPrice" , while your TextBox's id is "txtPurchasePrice". Also, what are you doing in your codebehind ? Are you testing the Page.IsValid property before doing anything ? — Laurent S., Jul 03 '13 at 13:35
oh right..typo on my part. Aside from that? Its still not working.. — user2545231, Jul 03 '13 at 13:36
cfr my answer below... Tentative of answer actually, but this is a classic mistake — Laurent S., Jul 03 '13 at 13:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 03 '13 at 13:40

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I think the problem may be you're not testing the Page.IsValid property in you codebehind, but as you don't show it I couldn't be sure. You need to test it before doing anything, else your form will be submitted and you'll never get to actually see your validation summary...

So, in your onClick event handler, where you do all your stuff for now I presume :

if(Page.IsValid)
{
//do the actions you wish here
}

answered Jul 03 '13 at 13:40

Laurent S.

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another thing is, the button should only fire up 'Validator1' and not all validations in the page. – user2545231 Jul 03 '13 at 13:47
That's another problem. It's been a long time since I haven't done any 1.1, but I don't think this is possible in this version of the Framework, hence the introduction of ValidationGroups in further releases of the Framework. Have you tried with my code up here to see if you could already get you validation summary to show ? – Laurent S. Jul 03 '13 at 13:51

Validationsummary not showing onclick of button

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