Call MVC 3 Client Side Validation Manually for ajax posts

Question

I am creating an MVC 3 web application. I want to use Data Annotations on my entity class and then use unobtrusive client side validation before making a post back to the se

Answer 1

I have been phaffing about with MVC client side validation for days:

Don't use .click use .submit:

$("#MyForm").on('submit',function () {

    if($("#MyForm").valid())
    {
        //Do ajax stuff
    }

    //Return false regardless of validation to stop form submitting
    //prior to ajax doing its thing
    return false;
});

I'm going add an update to this, consider cancelling the event rather than returning false (or do both):

$("#MyForm").on('submit',function (e) {

    if($("#MyForm").valid())
    {
        //Do ajax stuff
    }

    e.preventDefault();

    //Return false regardless of validation to stop form submitting
    //prior to ajax doing its thing
    return false;
});