> Hello,
>
> I am building an table out of dynamic data for the purposes of editing
> rows.  The scope of the project didn't allow for an elegant way of
> doing this with forms.
>
> Basically I add a control a cell to a row to the table.  That control
> has a validation associated with it.  The problem is on the next
> postback I need to do a bunch of odd stuff to it so my first thought
> was to use some type of client validation.  In it's simplist form, I
> basically want to validate that the field is of type currency.  This
> is simple enough in JS or in RegExp.
>
> Here is a sample of the logic:
>
> oCell = New System.Web.UI.WebControls.TableCell
> oTextbox = New System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
> oTextbox.ID = "LastMaintenanceCost_" & sUniqueRowID
> oTextbox.Text =
> LastMaintenanceCost.ToString("$#,##0.00;($#,##0.00);$0.00")
> oTextbox.Width =
> System.Web.UI.WebControls.Unit.Point(50)
> oCell.Controls.Add(oTextbox)
> oRequiredValidator = New
> System.Web.UI.WebControls.RequiredFieldValidator
> oRequiredValidator.ID = "LastMaintenanceCostRequired_"
> & sUniqueRowID
> oRequiredValidator.ControlToValidate =
> "LastMaintenanceCost_" & sUniqueRowID
> oRequiredValidator.ErrorMessage = "<br>Required"
> oRequiredValidator.Display = ValidatorDisplay.Dynamic
> oRequiredValidator.EnableClientScript = True
> oCell.Controls.Add(oRequiredValidator)
> oRegExpValidator = New
> System.Web.UI.WebControls.RegularExpressionValidator
> oRegExpValidator.ID = "LastMaintenanceCostRegExp_" &
> sUniqueRowID
> oRegExpValidator.ControlToValidate =
> "LastMaintenanceCost_" & sUniqueRowID
> oRegExpValidator.ErrorMessage = "<br>Currency values
> only"
> oRegExpValidator.Display = ValidatorDisplay.Dynamic
> oRegExpValidator.EnableClientScript = True
> oRegExpValidator.ValidationExpression =
> "^\$?([0-9]{1,3},([0-9]{3},)*[0-9]{3}|[0-9]+)(.[0-9][0-9])?$"
> oCell.Controls.Add(oRegExpValidator)
> oRow.Cells.Add(oCell)
> So my question is what do I need to do to make this logic execute on
> the client side?  I have enabled client scripting but that doesn't
> seem to do anything.
>
> Also, is the validation code IE specific or does it work on browsers
> such as Mozilla or FireFox?
>

"Brock Allen" wrote:

> The server side validation controls always run server side and are supported
> client side in IE only, unfortunately.
>
> -Brock
> DevelopMentor
> http://staff.develop.com/ballen
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am building an table out of dynamic data for the purposes of editing
> > rows.  The scope of the project didn't allow for an elegant way of
> > doing this with forms.
> >
> > Basically I add a control a cell to a row to the table.  That control
> > has a validation associated with it.  The problem is on the next
> > postback I need to do a bunch of odd stuff to it so my first thought
> > was to use some type of client validation.  In it's simplist form, I
> > basically want to validate that the field is of type currency.  This
> > is simple enough in JS or in RegExp.
> >
> > Here is a sample of the logic:
> >
> > oCell = New System.Web.UI.WebControls.TableCell
> > oTextbox = New System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox
> > oTextbox.ID = "LastMaintenanceCost_" & sUniqueRowID
> > oTextbox.Text =
> > LastMaintenanceCost.ToString("$#,##0.00;($#,##0.00);$0.00")
> > oTextbox.Width =
> > System.Web.UI.WebControls.Unit.Point(50)
> > oCell.Controls.Add(oTextbox)
> > oRequiredValidator = New
> > System.Web.UI.WebControls.RequiredFieldValidator
> > oRequiredValidator.ID = "LastMaintenanceCostRequired_"
> > & sUniqueRowID
> > oRequiredValidator.ControlToValidate =
> > "LastMaintenanceCost_" & sUniqueRowID
> > oRequiredValidator.ErrorMessage = "<br>Required"
> > oRequiredValidator.Display = ValidatorDisplay.Dynamic
> > oRequiredValidator.EnableClientScript = True
> > oCell.Controls.Add(oRequiredValidator)
> > oRegExpValidator = New
> > System.Web.UI.WebControls.RegularExpressionValidator
> > oRegExpValidator.ID = "LastMaintenanceCostRegExp_" &
> > sUniqueRowID
> > oRegExpValidator.ControlToValidate =
> > "LastMaintenanceCost_" & sUniqueRowID
> > oRegExpValidator.ErrorMessage = "<br>Currency values
> > only"
> > oRegExpValidator.Display = ValidatorDisplay.Dynamic
> > oRegExpValidator.EnableClientScript = True
> > oRegExpValidator.ValidationExpression =
> > "^\$?([0-9]{1,3},([0-9]{3},)*[0-9]{3}|[0-9]+)(.[0-9][0-9])?$"
> > oCell.Controls.Add(oRegExpValidator)
> > oRow.Cells.Add(oCell)
> > So my question is what do I need to do to make this logic execute on
> > the client side?  I have enabled client scripting but that doesn't
> > seem to do anything.
> >
> > Also, is the validation code IE specific or does it work on browsers
> > such as Mozilla or FireFox?
> >
>
>
>
>