Question

I am working on a project with Asp.Net MVC3

In a View I have @Html.ValidationSummary(true) and as usually it produces

<div class="validation-summary-errors">
    <ul>
        <li>Something bad Happened!</li>
    </ul>
</div>

How can I extend this ValidationSummary to MyValidationSummary and produces the Html Code template something like this:

<div class="notification warning"> 
    <span></span> 
    <div class="text"> <p>Something bad Happened!</p> </div> 
</div>

Answer 1

This question details the procedure of writing custom validation summary.

EDIT
This will do what you want:

public static class LinqExt 
{
    public static string MyValidationSummary(this HtmlHelper helper, string validationMessage="")
    {
        string retVal = "";
        if (helper.ViewData.ModelState.IsValid)
            return "";

        retVal += "<div class='notification-warnings'><span>";
        if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(validationMessage))
            retVal += helper.Encode(validationMessage);
        retVal += "</span>";
        retVal += "<div class='text'>";
        foreach (var key in helper.ViewData.ModelState.Keys) 
        {
            foreach(var err in helper.ViewData.ModelState[key].Errors)
                retVal += "<p>" + helper.Encode(err.ErrorMessage) + "</p>";
        }
        retVal += "</div></div>";
        return retVal.ToString();
    }
}

The code is self explanatory; just enumerating through modelstate errors and wrapping errors in dom element of your choice. There is an error that is if i use it like:

<%:Html.MyValidationSummary()%>

It will display html tags on the page as text rather than rendering it.

<%=Html.MyValidationSummary()%>

This works fine.