Change Text Box Color using Required Field Validator. No Extender Controls Please

Question

I need to change color of TextBox whenever its required field validator is fired on Clicking the Submit button

Answer 1

I liked Rory's answer, but it doesn't work well with ValidationGroups, certainly in my instance where I have two validators on one field triggered by two different buttons.

The problem is that ValidatorValidate will mark the validator as 'isValid' if it is not in the current ValidationGroup, but our class-changing code does not pay any attention. This meant the the display was not correct (certainly IE9 seems to not like to play).

so to get around it I made the following changes:

    /**
    * Re-assigns the ASP.NET validation JS function to
    * provide a more flexible approach
    */
    function UpgradeASPNETValidation() {
        if (typeof (Page_ClientValidate) != "undefined") {
            AspValidatorUpdateDisplay = ValidatorUpdateDisplay;
            ValidatorUpdateDisplay = NicerValidatorUpdateDisplay;
            AspValidatorValidate = ValidatorValidate;
            ValidatorValidate = NicerValidatorValidate;
        }
    }

    /**
    * This function is called once for each Field Validator, passing in the 
    * Field Validator span, which has helpful properties 'isvalid' (bool) and
    * 'controltovalidate' (string = id of the input field to validate).
    */
    function NicerValidatorUpdateDisplay(val) {
        // Do the default asp.net display of validation errors (remove if you want)
        AspValidatorUpdateDisplay(val);

        // Add our custom display of validation errors
        // IF we should be paying any attention to this validator at all
        if ((typeof (val.enabled) == "undefined" || val.enabled != false) && IsValidationGroupMatch(val, AspValidatorValidating)) {
            if (val.isvalid) {
                // do whatever you want for invalid controls
                $('#' + val.controltovalidate).parents('.control-group:first').removeClass('error');
            } else {
                // reset invalid controls so they display as valid
                //$('#' + val.controltovalidate).parents('.control-group:first').addClass('error');
                var t = $('#' + val.controltovalidate).parents('.control-group:first');
                t.addClass('error');
            }
        }
    }

    function NicerValidatorValidate(val, validationGroup, event) {
        AspValidatorValidating = validationGroup;
        AspValidatorValidate(val, validationGroup, event);
    }

    // Call UpgradeASPNETValidation after the page has loaded so that it 
    // runs after the standard ASP.NET scripts.
    $(document).ready(UpgradeASPNETValidation);