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

At least in my case (MVC 5), it was also necessary to add the following code or else .valid() would always return true:

$(function () {
$(document).ajaxComplete(function(event, request, settings){
    //re-parse the DOM after Ajax to enable client validation for any new form fields that have it enabled
    $.validator.unobtrusive.parse(document);
});

});

See http://johnculviner.com/the-unobtrusive-libraries-client-validation-on-ajax-in-asp-net-mvc-3/