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C Murphy
C Murphy

Reputation: 57

How to Remove Client-Side Validation on a textboxfor for multiple emails?

I am creating an MVC application in which I will have an input field for a list of emails. In order to do so, I added multiple in order to allow for the user to enter a comma separated list of emails. By doing it this way, I'm able to have input controls to check for the email(s) to be properly formatted ("[email protected]").

The problem is that when I test this, it automatically adds class="input-validation-error" (even if I set the @class="" prior) and will not allow me to post due to an invalid input, as a result. Is there any way to allow for this, or is my only option to make it an Email string property and parse it by commas into the EmailList property in the controller?

(Here is my code):

View:

@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.EmailList, new { type = "email", placeholder 
= "[email protected] (',' Delimited)", title = "Make sure your email(s) are 
formatted appropriately (and comma separated).", multiple = "" })

Model:

public List<string> EmailList { get; set; }

UPDATE:

I should also add that I am performing json serialization on post, so It needs to be in the form of a list. Ideally, I would be able to use the multiple for the input of type email tag, since it would allow for the necessary input controls that I would need without making me take it as a string and writing it to a list.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 381

Answers (4)

kblau
kblau

Reputation: 2107

The new fiddle is here, click on it https://dotnetfiddle.net/ORYDVJ

View

@model Testy20161006.Controllers.MurphyModel
@{
    Layout = null;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>Tut122</title>
    <script src="//ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.11.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(function () {
            $("#emailField").change(function () {
                var theList = {
                    emaillist: []
                };
                var array = $('#emailField').val().split(",");
                $.each(array, function (i) {
                    theList.emaillist.push(
                        array[i]
                    );
                });
                $.ajax({
                    url: '/Home/Tut122',
                    traditional: true,
                    type: "POST",
                    contentType: "application/json",
                    data: JSON.stringify({ murphyModel: theList }),
                    success: function (data) {
                        console.log('success!!');
                        $("#theOutput").html(data)
                    }
                });
            })
        })
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.EmailList, new
            {
                id = "emailField",
                type = "email",
                placeholder = "[email protected] (',' Delimited)",
                title = "Make sure your email(s) are formatted appropriately (and comma separated).",
                multiple = ""
            })
    <span>The output data:</span>
    <div id="theOutput">
    </div>
</body>
</html>

Controller/View Model

public class MurphyModel
{
    public List<string> EmailList { get; set; }
}

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    [HttpPost]
    public string Tut122(MurphyModel murphyModel)
    {
        //You need to get Newtonsoft.JSON
        var json = JsonConvert.SerializeObject(murphyModel);
        return json;
    }

    public ActionResult Tut122()
    {
        MurphyModel model = new MurphyModel();
        return View(model);
    }

Upvotes: 0

C Murphy
C Murphy

Reputation: 57

After Reviewing kblau's answer, I realized that was partially the reason. The other issue that I was running into (where MVC was stepping over any of my manually entered client-side validation) was the result of the unobtrusive validation:

<script src="~/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.min.js"></script>

After commenting this out, it allowed for me to have the input write to a string Email which I would then assign to a list of strings EmailList in the controller. This ended up working for me.

Upvotes: 0

China Syndrome
China Syndrome

Reputation: 993

add a js file hopefully u use jQuery

$(document).ready(function () {
    $("#EmailList").removeClass("input-validation-error");

});

Upvotes: 0

kblau
kblau

Reputation: 2107

https://dotnetfiddle.net/eadTjh

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@model Testy20161006.Controllers.MurphyModel
@{
    Layout = null;
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width" />
    <title>Tut122</title>
</head>
<body>
    @if (ViewBag.Output != null)
    {
        <span>@ViewBag.Output</span>
    }
    @using (Html.BeginForm())
    {
        @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.EmailList, new
        {
            type = "email",
            placeholder = "[email protected] (',' Delimited)",
            title = "Make sure your email(s) are formatted appropriately (and comma separated).",
            multiple = ""
        })
        <input type="submit" value="submit" />
    }
</body>
</html>

Controller/View Model

namespace Testy20161006.Controllers
{
public class MurphyModel
{
    //We don't want a list class, rather a string 
    public string EmailList { get; set; }
}

public class HomeController : Controller
{
    [HttpPost]
    public ActionResult Tut122(MurphyModel model)
    {
        var splitEmails = model.EmailList.Split(',');
        var anEmail = "These are the different emails: ";
        foreach (string email in splitEmails)
        {
            //set breakpoint here
            anEmail+= email + " and ";
        }
        anEmail = anEmail.Substring(0, anEmail.Length - 5);
        ViewBag.Output = anEmail;
        return View(model);        }

    public ActionResult Tut122()
    {
        MurphyModel model = new MurphyModel();
        return View(model);
    }

Upvotes: 0

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