Question

I’ve got a weird problem that i don’t understand why it happened.

I made a content page so a user can send me a message to my email and made a few TextBox’s that are linked to some validators.

when i first made the page i hed 1 Regular Expression validator and every thing worked out fine like i planed it, But then i decided to delete the Regular Expression validator and now i got a problem with the Required Field validator.

when i press submit the page do a post back like there isn’t any validators on the page.

I’m pretty sure I’m missing something (I’m pretty new at asp.net)
here is the markup:

<!-- Regular Expression Validtor for the Name Text Box 
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="NameExpressionValidator1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="nameTextBox"
ValidationExpression="[אבגדהוזחטיכלמנסעפצקרשתץףןם\s\.]*" Display="Dynamic">  </asp:RegularExpressionValidator> -->

<!--The Name Text Box -->  
<asp:TextBox ID="nameTextBox" class="TextBoxes" runat="server" 
AutoPostBack="True"  ValidationGroup="g" ></asp:TextBox> <span class="infoText">:שם</span>

<!-- Required Field Validator for the Name Text Box -->
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator2" runat="server"  ControlToValidate="nameTextBox" 
Display="Dynamic" ValidationGroup="g"   ErrorMessage="please enter your name"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
<br />
<br />

<!-- Phone Text Box -->
<asp:TextBox ID="phoneTestBox" class="TextBoxes" runat="server" 
AutoPostBack="True" ValidationGroup="g"  ></asp:TextBox> <span class="infoText">:טלפון</span>

<!-- Requierd Field Validator Phone Text Box -->
<asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator1" runat="server"  ControlToValidate="phoneTestBox" 
Display="Dynamic"  ValidationGroup="g" ErrorMessage="please enter your phone"></asp:RequiredFieldValidator>
<br />
<br />
<asp:TextBox ID="messagTextBox" runat="server"  class="TextBoxes" TextMode="MultiLine"
Text="asdasdadasdasdasd"></asp:TextBox> <span class="infoText">:הודעה</span> 

<asp:Button ID="button" runat="server" Text="send message"  ValidationGroup="g" />

Answer 1

You should not use HTML comments to comment out server side controls but <%-- --%>:

<%-- 
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator ID="NameExpressionValidator1" runat="server" ControlToValidate="nameTextBox"
ValidationExpression="[אבגדהוזחטיכלמנסעפצקרשתץףןם\s\.]*" Display="Dynamic">  </asp:RegularExpressionValidator>
--%>  

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/4acf8afk.aspx