Keeping Required Field Validators quiet when using a Summary

Sunday, September 28, 2003

If you've got RFV's in a datagrid (or on other special occasions) you may want their error messages to only show up on the Validator Summary. If you don't have any text set for a validator, it displays the entire error message.

One trick to keep them from displaying (and messing up the formatting) is to give them harmless (no space) html tags to display. "" works well, or you could just as easily use "". The tag isn't used very often, but it's pretty handy - especially with webforms where it's tougher to position everything since .NET is writing most of the HTML. Anything inside a block will stay on one line if possible.

2 Comments

Thanks..
It's true that tag isn't used very often, but it's pretty handy & it worked fine for me in IE and FF browsers.

ruckfules - Tuesday, September 23, 2008 10:10:33 PM

You could simply set Display="none" attribute on the rfv.

Greg - Thursday, May 5, 2011 10:12:35 AM

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