Question

I have an ASP.NET page with a jQuery dialog that is displayed to change some data. I am setting up the jQuery dialog so that when the user clicks the OK button it calls ASP.NET’s

Page_ClientValidate('validationGroup') via javascript, finds all the invalid controls and changes their CSS class. So here’s the scenario: the user opens the dialog, keys in some invalid data, clicks OK (receiving the validation messages), and then clicks Cancel.

Now the dialog is closed, but the validation messages are still there, so that when they open the dialog again, the data goes back to the way it was initially, but the form is still in the invalid state (the validation messages are still displaying).

What I need is a “reset” function of sorts to call after calling Page_ClientValidate('validationGroup'). Does this exist?

Answer 1

You can call the client-side function ValidatorValidate(validatorObj) to force validation to trigger again upon a specific validator. If you’re resetting (clearing) the form values to what the validators are expecting as defaults, then triggering the ValidatorValidate function on them, you should be okay. See documentation here.