Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance.  I am using form 
validation in ASP.Net and am satisfied with it, except that you have to 
leave room for the error message.  Is there a way to use the .Net 
validation to create a pop-up-message box instead.  Any help would be 
greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Hugh,

	You can use either popup message boxes or dynamic (room for
validation message is not allocated until the message actually needs to be
displayed).  I prefer the dynamic display (which doesn't work in down level
browsers:)

yourValidator.Display = ValidatorDisplay.Dynamic;

-OR- (in HTML)

<... RunAt="server" Display="Dynamic" ... />

	You can also use the ValidationSummary control to localize all the
validation events messages to a single place, and in this case you can use a
message box (javascript:alert();).  If you just want to display in a message
box then...

valSummary.ShowSummary = false;
valSummary.ShowMessageBox = true;
valSummary.EnableClientScript = true;
valSummary.HeaderText = "You must enter values for the following fields:";
valSummary.DisplayMode = ValidationSummaryDisplayMode.BulletedList;

-OR- (in HTML)

<!-- I'll leave this one to your imagination -->

	Validation controls do not need to appear within a ValidationSummary
control to be summarized by it.  The client script intellegently hooks
validation control's output into a ValidationSummary control if one is
present.  You should use a ValidationSummary whenever you have two or more
Validation* controls on a single page.

HTH,
- Chuck

-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh McLaughlin [mailto:hugh@k...]
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 12:29 PM
To: ASP+
Subject: [aspx] Pop up Message Boxes


Hello Everyone and thanks for your help in advance.  I am using form 
validation in ASP.Net and am satisfied with it, except that you have to 
leave room for the error message.  Is there a way to use the .Net 
validation to create a pop-up-message box instead.  Any help would be 
greatly appreciated.  Thanks.