Why won't my form post back after validation?

Question

I have an asp.net page with multiple validation summaries setup with ShowMessageBox=\"True\" and several validators. I have run into a situation where when vali

Answer 1

After working on this and making careful use of the debugger I finally found out that when you do validation the way described in the edit to the question a boolean is set on failure that blocks the next PostBack of the page from going through. I believe this is done when validation is being done automatically instead of explicitly as I'm doing here. Changing the javascript described above to look like this:

function DoValidation() {
    if (!Page_ClientValidate('group1')) {
        Page_BlockSubmit = false;
        return false;
    }
    if (!Page_ClientValidate('group2')) {
        Page_BlockSubmit = false;
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

Causes the problem to go away. Hopefully this will help the next person who makes the same mistake I did.