Disable ASP.NET validators with JavaScript

Question

Does anyone know how to disable an ASP.NET validator using JavaScript? I'm using javascript style.display = 'none' to disable parts of a web page. However these disabled parts have asp.net validators that are still firing and I need to disable then without doing a round trip to the server. Thanks.

Answer 1

Use this snippet:

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

Answer 2

This is an old question but surprised the following answer it not given. I implemented it using of the comments above and works flawlessly

# enable validation document.getElementById('<%=mytextbox.ClientID%>').enabled = true  #disable validation document.getElementById('<%=mytextbox.ClientID%>').enabled = false 

This implementation can be someone tricky because remember if there is an error in javascript, the code will exit but you wont get any errors. Some helpful points

1. Make sure you can set a break point and can single step through the code. If not restart browser.

2. Set the break point at the start of the function where you put this code. Step through the code, if there is an error, the code will exit and you won't be able to step into the code.

3. In firefox Firebug, you can type the entire javascript statement in console tab to see what your statement returns. Most importantly you want to check for not null values of controls.