Hi Imar,

I'm using ASP.NET with Dreamweaver MX 04 to create a customer's information form. There are some textboxes and dropdown menus that I would like to validate before the form can be sent to the server. I've used the validation tag (ASP.NET) but everytime I click the "ADD BUTTON" and the form is sent to database without any validation. Could you please advise. Thanks

Here the code:

<td colspan="4" align="right" nowrap><div align="left">
        <asp:DropDownList id="FieldOfficeTeamACOCode" runat="server">
          <asp:ListItem value="0">Choose one</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NDA (Norwalk)">NDA (Norwalk)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NDB (Norwalk)">NDB (Norwalk)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NDC (Norwalk)">NDC (Norwalk)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NIA (Irvine)">NIA (Irvine)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NIB (Irvine)">NIB (Irvine)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NID (Irvine)">NID (Irvine)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NOB (Ontario)">NOB (Ontario)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NOF (Ontario)">NOF (Ontario)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NOG (Ontario)">NOG (Ontario)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NJA (NG)">NJA (NG)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NJB (NG)">NJB (NG)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NJP (NG)">NJP (NG)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NHB (Raytheon)">NHB (Raytheon)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NHC (Raytheon)">NHC (Raytheon)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NHE (Raytheon)">NHE (Raytheon)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NHF (Retheon)">NHF (Retheon)</asp:ListItem>
          <asp:ListItem value="NHH (Reytheon)">NHH (Reytheon)</asp:ListItem>
        </asp:DropDownList>
        <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ControlToValidate="FieldOfficeTeamACOCode" Display="Dynamic" ErrorMessage="Required!" ID="rfvFOTAC" InitialValue="0" runat="server" />
<tr valign="baseline">
      </div></td>
    </tr>
      <td align="right" nowrap><div align="right">PrimeContractorName:</div></td>
      <td colspan="4" align="right" nowrap><div align="left">
        <asp:textbox id="PrimeContractorName" TextMode="SingleLine" Columns="32" runat="server" />
      <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ControlToValidate="PrimeContractorName" Display="Dynamic" ErrorMessage="Required!" ID="rfvPrimeCont" runat="server" /></div></td>

    </tr>
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<input name="btnAdd" type="submit" id="btnAdd" value="Add "/>

The way i know how to validate is to click on the Insert or Submit button on your form, then go to the Tag box on the right, click the + icon then select Validate near the bottom. Then just tick the fields you want to validate.

Hope this helps :)

I don't think you can use regular submit buttons to trigger validation.

Change this:

<input name="btnAdd" type="submit" id="btnAdd" value="Add "/>

to something like this:

<asp:Button id="btnAdd" runat="server" Text="Add" />

For these kind of questions, I think you can better post in a .NET forum instead of a Dreamweaver forum....

rain_uk: Your solution works for client side validation only where DW generates JavaScript for validation. However, the ASP.NET validation controls are much more powerful than that as they also validate on the server....

HtH,

Imar
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