Asp.Net MVC EnableClientValidation doesn't work

Question

I want as well as Client Side Validation as Server Side Validation. I realized this as the following:

Model: ( The model has a DataModel(dbml) which contains the Tes

Answer 1

I thought I was missing something too, but I do know that the jQuery validation plug in doesn't react to mouseEnter/mouseLeave. According to the documentation for that plug in (at the plug in page - look for the section labeled "A few things to look for when playing around with the demo"):

Before a field is marked as invalid, the validation is lazy: Before submitting the form for the first time, the user can tab through fields without getting annoying messages - he won't get bugged before he had the chance to actually enter a correct value

I assume it's the same rule with MVC 2 client-side validation. I can't be sure of that because the documentation doesn't say anything but "it works on my machine" :).

I went with the jQuery validation route, which is supported in MVC Futures (note that the documentation for that is non-existent). To use it, you just need to replace the script tags for MicrosoftAjax.js, MicrosoftMvcAjax.js and MicrosoftMvcValidation.js files with these two tags:

<script src="/js/jquery.validate.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="/js/MicrosoftMvcJQueryValidation.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

replacing the path with yours.

I also found the need to upgrade to the latest version of jquery.validate.js from the developer's page, because we are using a later version of jQuery (1.4) here.

Hope that helps.

Answer 2

Change the order of the loaded javascript...

<script src="../../Scripts/jquery-1.4.1.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Scripts/MicrosoftAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Scripts/MicrosoftMvcAjax.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="../../Scripts/MicrosoftMvcValidation.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Had the exact same problem and this cleared it up for me...

Answer 3

hm..., it's late to answer but try this:

<script src="<%= Url.Content("ScriptFile.js") %>" type="text/javascript"></script>