Prevent textbox from firing validators - asp.net

So I have a textbox with 6 validators. 2 of each kind because I have two validation groups depending on what button the user clicks. My problem is everytime the textbox loses focus two error messages get displayed, and this looks wierd. I've tried setting the CausesValidation property of the textbox to "false" but it's not working.
Textbox & Validators -
<asp:TextBox ID="collectionDtl_Qty" runat="server" CssClass="formText"
AutoPostBack="false" CausesValidation="false" Text="0">
</asp:TextBox>
<asp:FilteredTextBoxExtender ID="collectionDtl_Qty_Filtered" runat="server"
FilterMode="ValidChars" TargetControlID="collectionDtl_Qty" ValidChars="1234567890,">
</asp:FilteredTextBoxExtender>
<asp:CustomValidator ControlToValidate="collectionDtl_Qty" ID="collectionDtl_Qty_CValidator"
runat="server" ClientValidationFunction="coll_QtyValidator"
Text="Quantity cannot be greater than requested quantity." ForeColor="Red"
ValidationGroup="formValidation" Display="Dynamic">
</asp:CustomValidator>
<asp:CustomValidator ControlToValidate="collectionDtl_Qty" ID="collectionDtl_Qty_CValidator2"
runat="server" ClientValidationFunction="coll_QtyValidator"
Text="Quantity cannot be greater than requested quantity." ForeColor="Red"
ValidationGroup="detailValidation" Display="Dynamic">
</asp:CustomValidator>
<asp:CompareValidator ControlToValidate="collectionDtl_Qty" ID="collectionDtl_Qty_Comparer"
runat="server" Text="Quantity must be greater than 0." ForeColor="Red"
ValidationGroup="formValidation" Display="Dynamic"
ValueToCompare="0" Operator="GreaterThan" Type="Integer">
</asp:CompareValidator>
<asp:CompareValidator ControlToValidate="collectionDtl_Qty" ID="collectionDtl_Qty_Comparer2"
runat="server" Text="Quantity must be greater than 0." ForeColor="Red"
ValidationGroup="detailValidation" Display="Dynamic"
ValueToCompare="0" Operator="GreaterThan" Type="Integer">
</asp:CompareValidator>
Any help would be appreciated.

Hi according to your question.what i understand you have to disabled validator or use validation based on Button click.
For Button click use ValidationGroup
ValidationGroup="save"
If you want to disabled validators on condition .Try this one
ValidatorEnable(document.getElementById('<%= rqrgvddlCategory.ClientID %>'), false);
Hope it will helps you.

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<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldLanguage" runat="server" ControlToValidate="ddlLanguage"
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I have this problem:
When I do not check CheckBox and do further actions, Validator does not start and everything works fine
When I check CheckBox and uncheck it, Validator works and does not allow to perform other actions.
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ASP.Net Prevent compare validator and regular expression validator from firing at the same time

I've got two text boxes like this:
<asp:TextBox ID="textBox1" runat="server" />
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="regExTextBox1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="textBox1" ErrorMessage="Not a positive real number." Display="Dynamic" ValidationExpression="(^0*[1-9]+\d*(\.\d+)?$)|(^0*\.0*[1-9]+\d*$)" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="reqFldTextBox1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="textBox1" ErrorMessage="Enter a number." Display="Dynamic" />
<asp:TextBox ID="textBox2" runat="server" />
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="regExTextBox2" runat="server" ControlToValidate="textBox2" ErrorMessage="Not a positive real number." Display="Dynamic" ValidationExpression="(^0*[1-9]+\d*(\.\d+)?$)|(^0*\.0*[1-9]+\d*$)" />
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<asp:CompareValidator id="compareValidator" runat="server" ControlToValidate="textBox2" ControlToCompare="textBox1" Type="Double" Display="Dynamic" Operator="LessThan" Text="Error." />
It's two text boxes that have regular expression validators that constrain them to only allow positive real numbers. These work fine.
I also want the input in the second text box to be smaller than the first one. For that I have a compare validator.
When the user has correct numbers the compare validator works fine.
It's when they enter in anything that fails the second regular expression validator, that the compare validator also fires at the same time.
It doesn't matter what's in the first text box, valid input, wrong input, or even nothing. Both of the second validators fail.
Even though the validator is supposed to be comparing doubles.
Is there an easy fix for this?
I realize that this behavior is okay, because a validator is invalid when it should be, but the user would be seeing the incorrect error messages.
I've already done a solution involving custom validators and Javascript, and if it comes down to it then I'll have to do that again. But if that's the case then there's not much point to using a compare validator, since it'll never work with a regular expression validator.
Assign different validation groups to regular expression validator and compare validator and use ASP.NET inbuilt javascript function Page_ClientValidate() to check validation one by one.
<asp:TextBox ID="textBox1" runat="server" />
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="regExTextBox1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="textBox1" ErrorMessage="Not a positive real number." Display="Dynamic" ValidationExpression="(^0*[1-9]+\d*(\.\d+)?$)|(^0*\.0*[1-9]+\d*$)" ValidationGroup="Group1" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="reqFldTextBox1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="textBox1" ErrorMessage="Enter a number." Display="Dynamic" ValidationGroup="Group2"/>
<asp:TextBox ID="textBox2" runat="server" />
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="regExTextBox2" runat="server" ControlToValidate="textBox2" ErrorMessage="Not a positive real number." Display="Dynamic" ValidationExpression="(^0*[1-9]+\d*(\.\d+)?$)|(^0*\.0*[1-9]+\d*$)" ValidationGroup="Group1" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="reqFldTextBox2" runat="server" ControlToValidate="textBox2" ErrorMessage="Enter a number." Display="Dynamic" ValidationGroup="Group2" />
<asp:CompareValidator id="compareValidator" runat="server" ControlToValidate="textBox2" ControlToCompare="textBox1" Type="Double" Display="Dynamic" Operator="LessThan" Text="Error." ValidationGroup="Group3" />
<asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" OnClientClick="return Validate()" />
In Javascript
<script type="text/javascript">
function Validate() {
var isValid = false;
isValid = Page_ClientValidate('Group1');
if (isValid) {
isValid = Page_ClientValidate('Group2');
}
if (isValid) {
isValid = Page_ClientValidate('Group3');
}
return isValid;
}
</script>
I think you should use Custom Validator for second textbox to confirm that Comparison logic occurs if regular expression validation passes. You could do it the following way-
<asp:Textbox id="textBox2" runat="server" text=""></asp:Textbox>
<asp:CustomValidator id="CustomValidator2" runat="server"
ControlToValidate = "textBox2"
ErrorMessage = "Your Error Message"
ClientValidationFunction="validateLength" >
</asp:CustomValidator>
<script type="text/javascript">
function validateLength(oSrc, args){
// your validation logic here
}
</script>

RequiredFieldValidator not firing, but RangeValidator is fine

My RangeValidator is working perfectly. My RequiredFieldValidator is not firing at all. Any ideas why?
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Text='<%# eval("LC") %>'></asp:TextBox>
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfvTestNumber" runat="server"
Display="Dynamic" EnableClientScript="False" ErrorMessage="Required"
ForeColor="Red" ControlToValidate="txtTestNumber" Enabled="true"
ValidationGroup="WizStepValidationGroup">required
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
<asp:RangeValidator ValidationGroup="WizStepValidationGroup"
Display="Dynamic" ID="rvTestNumber" runat="server" ErrorMessage="Invalid value"
MinimumValue="0" MaximumValue="9999" ControlToValidate="txtTestNumber"
Type="Integer"></asp:RangeValidator>
Thanks for your input!
Add the ValidationGroup="WizStepValidationGroup" property to the text box and the button.
UPDATE:
You have set EnableClientScript="False" of RequiredFieldValidator hence it is not getting validated at the client side. Hence remove the EnableClientScript property or set it to True and I am 100% sure then it will work.

RegularExpressionValidator in Asp.net

I have search textbox,which has default value Enter Month to View Profit. When I click search button without entering any data, the default value of textbox is posted to server for search. I want that RegularExpressionValidator do not validate default value of textbox.
<asp:TextBox ID="Tboxsearch" Text="Enter Month to View Profit" OnClick="this.value=''" CssClass="textboxinput" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button ID="ButtonSearch" CssClass="btnLog" runat="server" Text="Search" onclick="ButtonSearch_Click" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator
ID="RequiredFieldValidatorname"
runat="server"
ControlToValidate="Tboxsearch"
ForeColor="Red"
Text="*"
>
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator
ID="RegularExpressionValidatorname"
runat="server"
ValidationExpression="[a-zA-Z0-9]+"
ForeColor="Red"
ControlToValidate="Tboxsearch"
ErrorMessage="Enter Valid Name!"
>
</asp:RegularExpressionValidator>
The default for all validators except the RequiredFieldValidator control if you post with empty field the validator will not trigger
you must use required field validator with other validators to prevent the postback to happen
from MSDN
Special-Case Validation Results for ASP.NET Server Controls
EDIT
Also if you add your controls as in your question it should work but if there is other controls like for example other button you should set the validationGroup Property to the group that you want to work together
ValidationGroup="vGrp"
and your code will be like this
<asp:TextBox ID="Tboxsearch" Text="Enter Month to View Profit" OnClick="this.value=''" CssClass="textboxinput" runat="server" ValidationGroup="vGrp"></asp:TextBox>
<asp:Button ID="ButtonSearch" CssClass="btnLog" runat="server" Text="Search" onclick="ButtonSearch_Click" ValidationGroup="vGrp" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator
ID="RequiredFieldValidatorname"
runat="server"
ControlToValidate="Tboxsearch"
ForeColor="Red"
Text="*"
ValidationGroup="vGrp">
</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator
ID="RegularExpressionValidatorname"
runat="server"
ValidationExpression="[a-zA-Z0-9]+"
ForeColor="Red"
ControlToValidate="Tboxsearch"
ErrorMessage="Enter Valid Name!" ValidationGroup="vGrp"></asp:RegularExpressionValidator>
from MSDN about validationGroup

ASP.NET: ValidationSummary doesn't display any contents

I'm trying to figure out how the heck the validation summary control of ASP.NET (3.5 I think) works.
<asp:ValidationSummary ID="vldSummary" runat="server" DisplayMode="BulletList"
CssClass="error" EnableClientScript="true" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="vldSubject" ControlToValidate="txtSubject"
EnableClientScript="false" Text="You must enter a subject." runat="server" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="vldMessage" ControlToValidate="txtMessage"
EnableClientScript="false" runat="server" Text="You must enter a message." />
It seems that no matter what I do, the validation summary remains empty (but is rendered) and the errors are only displayed at the position of each respective validator.
What am I doing wrong?
Text property's value is what is displayed beside the control. You need to set the ErrorMessage property of the validators to control what is shown in the summary.
You want to set the ErrorMessage property on your validation controls. This text will be displayed by the ValidationSummary control.
Try:
<asp:ValidationSummary ID="vldSummary" runat="server" DisplayMode="BulletList" CssClass="error" EnableClientScript="true" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="vldSubject" ControlToValidate="txtSubject" EnableClientScript="false" ErrorMessage="You must enter a subject." runat="server" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="vldMessage" ControlToValidate="txtMessage" EnableClientScript="false" runat="server" ErrorMessage="You must enter a message." />
Set the ErrorMessage property on the RequiredFieldValidators, not the Text property.
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="vldSubject" ControlToValidate="txtSubject" EnableClientScript="false" ErrorMessage="You must enter a subject." runat="server" />
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="vldMessage" ControlToValidate="txtMessage" EnableClientScript="false" runat="server" ErrorMessage="You must enter a message." />

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