MVC 4 client side validation not working

Question

Can anyone tell me why client side validation is not working in my MVC 4 application.

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Answer 1

The reason that the validation data-* attributes aren't showing in the rendered html for your input could be that there is no form context. The FormContext is created automatically when you create a form using @using(Html.BeginForm(...)) { ... }.

If you use a regular html tag for your form, you won't get client-side validation.