ASP.NET Validation Summary: How to disable validator with JavaScript?

Question

I want to disable a ASP.NET RequiredFieldValidator with JavaScript. Actually I'm using the following code:

function doSomething() 
{ 
  var myVal = document.getElementById('myValidatorClientID'); 
  ValidatorEnable(myVal, false);  
} 

This disables the validator. But my problem is, that I'm using a ValidationSummary. And this summary shows the validation message, even if I disable the validator.

Can someone tell me, how to disable the validator in the ValidationSummary too?

Answer 1

The solution is to add a call to ValidationSummaryOnSubmit() after you disable the validator.

function doSomething()  
{  
    var myVal = document.getElementById('myValidatorClientID');  
    ValidatorEnable(myVal, false);   
    ValidationSummaryOnSubmit();
}

You can find a file called WebUIValidation.js on your development computer, which contains the client side JavaScript functions used by the ASP.NET validation process. The functions are well named and it's generally fairly easy to figure out what each of them do.