Validation Message Box won't display

floridaguy · April 25th, 2011, 02:15 PM

I'm having trouble with step 8 of Try It Out "Writing Client and Server Side Validation Methods. On page 312 it says to change Show Summary to false and Show MessageBox to true. Before that step the summary shows fine. After that step the MessageBox does not show. I've tried it in Chrome and Firefox.

Any ideas?

Imar · April 25th, 2011, 02:22 PM

Hi there,

Can you post the code for the page? If you post it, please copy it to Notepad first and then use the code button (#) to mark it as code.

Cheers,

Imar

floridaguy · April 25th, 2011, 02:35 PM

I compared the source from the book to mine and found a typo in the JavaScript
ValidatPhoneNumbers corrected to ValidatePhoneNumbers

Now the MessageBox displays. Why doesn't this break the summary too?

Imar · April 26th, 2011, 03:08 AM

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Why doesn't this break the summary too?

Not entirely sure. I think the inner workings of the JavaScript generated by the controls to handle the summary are more robust, and continue to work even when an error occours.

Other than that, I see no reason why one would fail and the other wouldn't.

Cheers,

Imar