ASP.Net Validators

[Guest]

I'm placing a ton of validators on a form where a user creates an account.
All I want to do is show the errors in the validation summary and not in each
individual control. I have a validation control set up already as well as
the field validators. How do I do this?

Thanks
Therese

 

[Teemu Keiski]

You should just have ValidationSummary control on the Page
(<asp:ValidationSummary runat="server" />) and then in each individual
validation control property/attribute Display="None" so that error messages
are not shown inline, only in the summary.

<asp:RequiredFieldValidator runat="server" ... Display="None"
ErrorMessage="Birthdate is required" />

You can also put it so that for example an asterisk (*) is shown inline
while error message is actual text. This happens so that set validation
control's ErrorMessage property/attribute to the text and between validation
control's beginning and end tags put *, for example:

<asp:RequiredFieldValidator runat="server" ... ErrorMessage="Birthdate is
required">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

(here of course you wouldn't set Display to None)