Adding jQuery validator rules to dynamically created elements in ASP

Question

I\'ve got some dynamically inserted form fields on a page in an MVC3 project. Normally we would add the jQuery validation server-side, but in this case we can\'t (multiple

Answer 1

As it turns out, this can be done mostly in HTML by adding a few attributes to each form element:

• A name attribute
• data-val="true"
• data-val-required="message"

Like so:

Then the form just needs to be re-parsed via JS:

//Remove current form validation information
$("form")
    .removeData("validator")
    .removeData("unobtrusiveValidation");

//Parse the form again
$.validator
    .unobtrusive
    .parse("form");