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Yogi
Yogi

Reputation: 450

Multiple forms in a single view

I have multiple @Html.BeginForm's in my strongly-type View, which inherits from one Model. Some of the fields in the Model are [Required] and some are not. When the second @Html.BeginForm is submitted, it did not include some of the [Required] Html.TextBoxFor items from the first @Html.BeginForm. As a result the validation message is showing in the first @Html.BeginForm block.

It would be nice if each @Html.BeginForm could inherit from different Models, to produce independent sets of TextBoxFor and ValidationFor.

Question: Does anyone know how to suppress the validation in the first form when submitting the second form?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 184

Answers (2)

Yogi
Yogi

Reputation: 450

I'm trying to avoid conditional logic in my View. I think the validator does not behave as I expected on multiple forms within a page. So I ended up removing the validators and [Required] fields alltogether and added manual validation within the controller that looks like this:

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();

if (mm.field1 == null)
    sb.Append("<li>field1 is required</li>");
if (mm.field2 == null)
    sb.Append("<li>field2 is required</li>");

//    .... and on and on

if (sb.ToString != "")
   {
    ViewData["validationMessage1"] = "<ul>" + sb.ToString() + "</ul>";
    return View("MyView",mm);
   }

//  Process form below here, at this point all required fields have passed validation

Upvotes: 0

reptildarat
reptildarat

Reputation: 1036

Well, assuming you just have one controller that handle all of your form. first of all you need to check what form is empty like this:

@{

    if(!Request["form1"].IsEmpty()){
        //sending data form 1...
    }
    if(!Request["form2"].IsEmpty()){
        //sending data form 2
    }
    if(!Request["form3"].IsEmpty()){
        //sending data form 3
    }

}

It's best practice to separate the controller or method for each form.

Upvotes: 1

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