ASP.NET LinkButton / ImageButton and JQuery Validate?

Question

We are introducing JQuery to an existing ASP.NET application and use the Validate plugin for JQuery to do the client side validation (we do

Answer 1

Not sure if this will help, but give it a shot...

http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validation/validate#options

$("input[type=image]").click(function() {
   $($(this).parents(form)).validate();
});

You might need to replace the "form" with something more specific, but I tried to get it as accurate as possible without knowing how everything's laid out on your page. Reply if this helps!

Answer 2

The first suggestion might still work because you can cause the postback to fire using Javascript after the validation occurs.

The javascript is:

__doPostBack('<%= YourImageControl.UniqueID %>','');

The second empty parameter can be used to pass arguments.