Question

I just realized that when I place a form tag on my layout page, surrounding the RenderBody section, the unobtrusive validation is not being generated. Something like this:

@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    <input type="submit" value="save" />

    <div>
        @RenderBody()
    </div>
}

As you might have guessed I want to generate buttons over my content. Is this the correct unobtrusive’s behavior?

BTW, If I place the form inside a particular page, everything works like a charm: the data-val* attributes are well generated.

I’ll appreciate your valuable help.

best regards

Rodrigo

Answer 1

Thanks for your help, I tried it but I found a solution not as “grotesque” (as you said) as you suggested 😀

I simply put a BeginForm method inside my page and also a BeginForm method on the layout:

@* On the layout page *@
@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
    <input type="submit" value="save" />

    <div>
        @RenderBody()
    </div>
}


@* On the content page *@
@using(Html.BeginForm())
{
  @* Content *@
}

so, at the end I have two BeginForm methods: ASP.NET MVC engine is using the one located on the layout page, so the data-val* attributes are being rendered correctly and the form is placed just where I wanted so any submit button on the layout can submit my particular page with the validations rendered

It works pretty well

Thanks a lot

regards,
Rodrigo