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Asked: 2026-05-16T15:17:07+00:00

I have an ASP.NET page and I am trying to quickly match the validation

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I have an ASP.NET page and I am trying to quickly match the validation controls that are tied to a particular textbox (text input) using a jQuery selector. The validation controls render as a span and the “controltovalidate” property renders as an expando property. Here is a test example:

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >
<head runat="server">
    <title>Untitled Page</title>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="jquery.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
        <asp:TextBox ID="TextBox1" runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
        <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="TextBox1"
            ErrorMessage="RequiredFieldValidator"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

        <asp:Button ID="Button1" runat="server" Text="Button" /></div>

        <input type="button" value="Test" onclick="ml_test();" />

        <script type="text/javascript">
            ml_test = function() {
                alert($('[controltovalidate=TextBox1]').get().length);
            };
        </script>

    </form>
</body>
</html>

Renders as:

(code removed here)

        <input name="TextBox1" type="text" id="TextBox1" />
        <span id="RequiredFieldValidator1" style="color:Red;visibility:hidden;">RequiredFieldValidator</span>
        <span id="RegularExpressionValidator1"></span>

        <input type="submit" name="Button1" value="Button" onclick="javascript:WebForm_DoPostBackWithOptions(new WebForm_PostBackOptions(&quot;Button1&quot;, &quot;&quot;, true, &quot;&quot;, &quot;&quot;, false, false))" id="Button1" /></div>

        <input type="button" value="Test" onclick="ml_test();" />

        <script type="text/javascript">
            ml_test = function() {
                alert($('[controltovalidate=TextBox1]').get().length);
            };
        </script>

(code removed here)

<script type="text/javascript">
//<![CDATA[
var RequiredFieldValidator1 = document.all ? document.all["RequiredFieldValidator1"] : document.getElementById("RequiredFieldValidator1");
RequiredFieldValidator1.controltovalidate = "TextBox1";
RequiredFieldValidator1.errormessage = "RequiredFieldValidator";
RequiredFieldValidator1.evaluationfunction = "RequiredFieldValidatorEvaluateIsValid";
RequiredFieldValidator1.initialvalue = "";
//]]>
</script>

The problem: the ml_test() function shows 1 in Internet Explorer 7 (as expected), but shows 0 in Firefox 3.6.8. I tried adding additional controls, but in Firefox it consistently doesn’t work.

I discovered this post that shows the use of an ampersand in the selector like this [@expando=value], but when I try this syntax, jQuery 1.4.2 throws an error.

Is there a cross-browser way to select expando attributes, and if so, what is the proper syntax?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can use .filter() like this:

    ml_test = function() {
    alert($('span').filter(function() { return this.controltovalidate=='TextBox1'; }).length);
};

    You can test it here, or make it a custom selector, like this:

    jQuery.expr[':'].validatorFor = function(o, i, m){
  return o.controltovalidate === m[3];
};​

    And call it like this:

    ml_test = function() {
    alert($('span:validatorFor(TextBox1)').length);
};

    You can that that version here.

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