Validation Controls RadTextBox

[Ben Paul]

I'm more of a Designer/Front-End guy but trying hard to understand .NET and learn as much as I can. I had a developer help me with some of this, but I'm still stumped.

I'm confused as to how I can get my form to validate using the validation controls.

Whenever I call the onClick="send_Click" it bypasses the validation and runs the form string and redirects to my thankyou.aspx.

When I replace it with the onClientClick it validates but fails to run the code in the aspx.cs file.

Here is a snippet of what is on the form page aka howtoget.aspx.

<div class="formboxit2">
        <div class="contactlabelist2"><span style="color:#246FF5">*</span><label>Email</label></div>
        <div class="contactinputist">
            <telerik:RadTextBox ID="Email" runat="server" Height="19px" Width="200px" BorderColor="White" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" CssClass="radPad" Skin="Office2007" Font-Bold="True" Font-Names="Arial" Font-Size="12px" LabelCssClass="">
                <FocusedStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
                <HoveredStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
            </telerik:RadTextBox>
            
            <asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="RequiredFieldValidator3" runat="server" Display="Dynamic"
            ControlToValidate="Email" ErrorMessage="The textbox can not be empty!" EnableClientScript="False" />
        </div>
</div>
<div class="formboxitM">
    <div class="contactlabelist"><label>Message</label></div>
    <div class="contactinputist">
        <telerik:RadTextBox ID="Message" runat="server" Height="114px" TextMode="MultiLine" Width="634px" BorderColor="White" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" Skin="Office2007" Font-Bold="True" Font-Names="Arial" Font-Size="12px" LabelCssClass="">
            <FocusedStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
            <HoveredStyle BorderColor="#246FF5" BorderStyle="Solid" BorderWidth="2px" />
        </telerik:RadTextBox>
    </div>
</div>
<div class="contactinputistSub"><asp:button runat="server" ID="send" onClick="send_Click" BorderStyle="None" BorderWidth="0px" CssClass="swerps" /></div>
<div class="inquiry">*Your information will only be used for this inquiry.</div>   


and here is what I have on the aspx.cs

using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Net.Mail;
using Telerik.Web.UI;

namespace domain.com
{
    public partial class howtoget : System.Web.UI.Page
    {
        protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
       }

        protected void send_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
        {
            try
            {
                string firstname = this.FirstName.Text;
                string lastname = this.LastName.Text;
                string phone = this.Phone.Text;
                string email = this.Email.Text;
                string messageoftext = this.Message.Text;
                string bodyoftext = firstname + " " + lastname + " " + "has requested to be contacted. " + firstname +
                    "'s email address is: " + email + " . You may contact this person at: " + phone + " . " + firstname+ " has left message: " + messageoftext;
                MailMessage message = new MailMessage("[e-mail]", "[e-mail]", "Customer Request", bodyoftext);
                SmtpClient emailClient = new SmtpClient("relay-hosting.secureserver.net ");
                message.IsBodyHtml = true;
                emailClient.Send(message);
                Response.Redirect("thankyou.aspx");
            }
            catch (Exception mailex)
            {
                Response.Write(mailex.ToString());
            }
 
        }
    }
}

[sitefinitysteve]

1) Well EnableClientScript is false, so you're going to be going back to the server to validate.  You should remove that (unless you want to postback...) http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.web.ui.webcontrols.validationsummary.enableclientscript%28VS.80%29.aspx

2) Try setting a ValidationGroup  on the TextBoxes, the RequiredFieldValidators, and the submit button....it'll link them all together.

3) If you need to validate on the serverside, use a CustomValidator link .  It'll allow you to stop your click events from running if your page isnt in a Valid State.  Useful for scenarios where a user has typed in some text which passes the "RequiredValidator", but needs some extra validation.

Give those a go :)
Steve