I'm having problems trying to get the unobtrusive jquery validation to work with a partial view that is loaded dynamically through an AJAX call.
I've been spending days trying to get this code to work with no luck.
Here's the View:
@model MvcApplication2.Models.test
@using (Html.BeginForm())
{
@Html.ValidationSummary(true);
<div id="res"></div>
<input id="submit" type="submit" value="submit" />
}
The Partial View:
@model MvcApplication2.Models.test
@Html.TextAreaFor(m => m.MyProperty);
@Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.MyProperty);
<script type="text/javascript" >
$.validator.unobtrusive.parse(document);
</script>
The Model:
public class test
{
[Required(ErrorMessage= "required field")]
public int MyProperty { get; set; }
}
The Controller:
public ActionResult GetView()
{
return PartialView("Test");
}
and finally, the javascript:
$(doument).ready(function () {
$.ajax({
url: '/test/getview',
success: function (res) {
$("#res").html(res);
$.validator.unobtrusive.parse($("#res"));
}
});
$("#submit").click(function () {
if ($("form").valid()) {
alert('valid');
return true;
} else {
alert('not valid');
return false;
}
});
The validation does not work. Even if I don't fill any information in the texbox, the submit event shows the alert ('valid').
However, if instead of loading dynamically the view, I use @Html.Partial("test", Model)
to render the partial View in the main View (and I don't do the AJAX call), then the validation works just fine.
This is probably because if I load the content dynamically, the controls don't exist in the DOM yet. But I do a call to $.validator.unobtrusive.parse($("#res"));
which should be enough to let the validator about the newly loaded controls...
Can anyone help ?
unobtrusive.parse
function takes a selector as an argument, not an element. – Svend