Mixing Asp.net default validation with a custum submit action

Question

I have a page whose submit buttton does dot submit at all. It rathers has a some javascript in OnClientClick that employs some logic and redirects the user to a calculated URL. The thing is I want to use ASP.net default validation in this setup. I need to be able to query the state of the client side validation in the javascript. How do I do that?

Answer 1

This appears to be what your looking for, using ASP.NET Validation from client code

<asp:Button ID="btnAddEntry" runat="server" OnClientClick="ValidateAndAddNewEntry(); return false;" CausesValidation="true" ValidationGroup="AddEntry" Text="Create" />

JavaScript

function ValidateAndAddNewEntry()  {

var res = Page_ClientValidate("AddEntry");   
    if ( res == true )  
    {  
        //Do work  
    }  
}