highlighting textboxes

[Guest]

hello,

i have a 14 textboxes and 14 requiredfieldvalidator controls to validate the
textboxes. if one or more of the textboxes is empty, the corresponding
requiredfieldvalidator controls show error messages. if all are empty, then
14 error messages show up which takes up a lot of real estate.

as a better alternative, i would like to show only 1 generalized error
message "Pls. fill the highlighted textboxes." and just highlight the empty
textboxes. how do i do this and thanks in advance.

 

[SevDer]

hello,

i have a 14 textboxes and 14 requiredfieldvalidator controls to validate the
textboxes. if one or more of the textboxes is empty, the corresponding
requiredfieldvalidator controls show error messages. if all are empty, then
14 error messages show up which takes up a lot of real estate.

as a better alternative, i would like to show only 1 generalized error
message "Pls. fill the highlighted textboxes." and just highlight the empty
textboxes. how do i do this and thanks in advance.

1. You can have a custom validator
or
2. You can change the Display property of the validators to "None" and
add 1 validation summary.
As a result, all the validators will not be visible but the validation
summary.

I hope this helps