Get a Event from asp.net's validators to jquery on status change

Question

Hi,

i would like to have an event fired in jquery, if the validators of my page change their states.

This is my usecase:

1. In an Adressform the Validators all are hidden.
2. If i submit the form, the get displayed.
3. Now i want to fire a jQuery function, which renders all rows (not the inputfields, but their parents) with a red border (means add a css class)
4. if i now change the field and the validator hides i also want to hide the border around the input's parent

i don't want to have a timer checking every 100ms the displayed validators (which would work perfectly), but i want to listen only to the show/hide events of the validators

any ideas, how i can add a listener to the change events of a validator?

regards Christoph

Answer 1

Have you looked into the standard jQuery validator plugin? I'm pretty sure its validators have events you can hook into in just the way you describe.

Answer 2

Here is how you can call .NET validators from JavaScript:
Manually calling ASP.NET Validation with JavaScript

You could integrate the above with jQuery events or jQuery Validation.

NOTE: This solution is if you are tied to .NET Validators, otherwise just use jQuery Validation as Dave mentioned.