The following attempt works in IE8 but not in Firefox (cannot use JQuery for

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The following attempt works in IE8 but not in Firefox (cannot use JQuery for

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The following attempt works in IE8 but not in Firefox (cannot use JQuery for this):

case 'Template:templateControl:residenceRBL2': 
    if (selected.value == 'Within USA') 
    {
        /* Enable zip textbox and validator */
 document.getElementById("Template_templateControl_zipTxt1").disabled=false;
 ValidatorEnable(document.getElementById('<%=firstPersonZipReqVal.ClientID%>'),
            true);
 ...
    }
    else if (selected.value == 'Outside USA') 
    {
        /* Disable zip textbox and validator */
 document.getElementById("Template_templateControl_zipTxt1").disabled=true;
 ValidatorEnable(document.getElementById('<%=firstPersonZipReqVal.ClientID%>'),
            false);
 ...
    }
    break;

    <asp:Label ID="firstPersonZipLabel" Runat="server"></asp:Label><br />
 <asp:TextBox ID="zipTxt1" Height="19" Width="100" 
        Runat="server"></asp:TextBox>
    <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="firstPersonZipReqVal" 
        ControlToValidate="zipTxt1" Display="Dynamic" 
            ErrorMessage="First Person Zip" 
                Runat="server">*</asp:RequiredFieldValidator>

Description of problem: depending on a radiobuttonlist selection, a required validator is disabled/re-enabled for a textbox. Basically, if their address is outside USA, then the zip textbox validator is disabled. In Firefox, this will not work at all.

UPDATE 1: 09-07-2010
I got the textbox disabled in Firefox; I was using the name attribute instead of the id. My only issue now is how to access the “ClientID” of an ASP.NET validator control in JS?

UPDATE 2: 09-07-2010
Per the MSDN documentation, I thought I could do something like this:

ValidatorEnable(firstPersonZipReqVal, false);

Unfortunately this doesn’t seem to work in Firefox either…

ASP.NET broken rendering of Validation client side code in Firefox

UPDATE 3: 09-08-2010

The reason Firefox is not playing nice is because ASP.NET 1.1 is treating it as a down-level browser. If I put clientTarget=”upLevel” in the Page tag, Firefox works as expected. Unfortunately, this breaks the entire site layout. Is there a more gradual way to fix the browsercaps for Firefox? This version of browserCaps also breaks the layout.

Current browserCaps in Web.Config look like this:

 <browserCaps> 
  <case match="Gecko/[-\d]+">
   browser=Netscape
   frames=true
   tables=true
   cookies=true
   javascript=true
   javaapplets=true
   ecmascriptversion=1.5
   w3cdomversion=1.0
   css1=true
   css2=true
   xml=true
   tagwriter=System.Web.UI.HtmlTextWriter
   <case match="rv:1.0[^\.](?'letters'\w*)">
    version=6.0
    majorversion=6
    minorversion=0
    <case match="^b" with="${letters}">
     beta=true
    </case>
   </case>
   <case match="rv:1(\.\d+)(\.\d)?(?'letters'\w*)">
    version=7.0
    majorversion=7
    minorversion=0
    <case match="^b" with="${letters}">
     beta=true
    </case>
   </case>
  </case>
 </browserCaps>

UPDATE: 09-11-2010

The following link may provide the answer; can someone assist with the code for the 50 points?

https://web.archive.org/web/20211020134119/https://www.4guysfromrolla.com/articles/051204-1.aspx