how do I validate a radio button group

whyulil · January 10th, 2007, 07:06 AM

Hi everybody,
Im coming back to a spot of ASP.NET after a long break and ive already come up across a problem. Doh!

I need to check that the user has selected eith Male or Female from a radio button group before a form is submitted.

Code:

<asp:radioButton id="sexm" runat="server" groupname="************" /> male
<asp:radioButton id="sexf" runat="server" groupname="************" /> female

Im assuming i need to use a custom validation control to check if either of them is true. If so what do i set the controlToValidate attribute to? Is this correct or is there a built in control for this sort of thing? Is there a tutorial anybody can recommend.

Thanks for your time
Andy

whyulil · January 10th, 2007, 10:44 AM

changed the way i did it to use a radioButtonList, then validated the radioButtonList control with a requiredFieldValidator. I knew it shouldn't be that much effort! still dont like the sloppy html output of asp.net 2.0, i was led to believe it was much nicer to work with :(