Question

is there any way to get the ASP.NET validation summary control to just display the HeaderText when there is a validation error?

Basically what I want is for just a simple message like ‘Please complete all fields marked *’ to appear next to the submit button. As I’m using ‘*’ for the error message on the validators I don’t want these to appear in the summary.

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

Set each validators Text to ‘*’ and ErrorMessage to an empty string.

<form id='form2' runat='server'> Name:<br /> <asp:TextBox ID='NameTextBox' runat='server' /> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator      ID='NameTextBoxRequiredValidator'      ControlToValidate='NameTextBox'     ErrorMessage=''      Text='*'      runat='server' /> <br /> City:<br /> <asp:TextBox ID='CityTextBox' runat='server' /> <asp:RequiredFieldValidator      ID='CityTextBoxRequiredValidator'      ControlToValidate='CityTextBox'     ErrorMessage=''      Text='*'      runat='server' /> <br /> <asp:Button ID='SubmitButton' Text='Submit' runat='server' /> <hr /> <asp:ValidationSummary      ID='valSum'      DisplayMode='SingleParagraph'      HeaderText='Please complete all fields marked *'     runat='server' /> </form>