Hello,

I'm creating validation on my form by using Custom Validators. I want to have the validator make sure that one of the items in the check box list is checked, but when I go to assign the custom validator's ControlToValidate property, none of the check boxes appear in the list. However, radio buttons do. Is there a way around this?

Thanks,

Brian Mains

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Brian

one way around it is to have one defaut as to always being checked.

<asp:checkboxlist id="mychkbox" runat="server">
    <asp:listitem text="burger" />
    <asp:listitem text="pizza" selected="true" />
</asp:checkboxlist>

**Note: I used a checkboxlist in the example.

Or you can use a requiredfieldvalidator on the <asp:checkboxlist> control instead of a custom one.

I tried to use a required field validator, and the checkbox list control didn't appear in the ControlToValidate property. Also, in the checkbox list control, I want to validate against it because it is possible the user could uncheck the one selected box, which would be an error. Any other ideas?

Thanks.

You have to add it in. Mine doesn't show up either. So, in my example you have <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ControlToValidate="mychkbox" id="...

I did that for the custom validator control, and it said "invalid control specified in the ControlToValidate" property...