I am working on a project with Asp.Net MVC3
In a View I have @Html.ValidationSummary(true)
and as usually it produces
<div class="validation-summary-errors">
<ul>
<li>Something bad Happened!</li>
</ul>
</div>
How can I extend this ValidationSummary to MyValidationSummary and produces the Html Code template something like this:
<div class="notification warning">
<span></span>
<div class="text"> <p>Something bad Happened!</p> </div>
</div>
This question details the procedure of writing custom validation summary.
EDIT This will do what you want:
public static class LinqExt
{
public static string MyValidationSummary(this HtmlHelper helper, string validationMessage="")
{
string retVal = "";
if (helper.ViewData.ModelState.IsValid)
return "";
retVal += "<div class='notification-warnings'><span>";
if (!String.IsNullOrEmpty(validationMessage))
retVal += helper.Encode(validationMessage);
retVal += "</span>";
retVal += "<div class='text'>";
foreach (var key in helper.ViewData.ModelState.Keys)
{
foreach(var err in helper.ViewData.ModelState[key].Errors)
retVal += "<p>" + helper.Encode(err.ErrorMessage) + "</p>";
}
retVal += "</div></div>";
return retVal.ToString();
}
}
The code is self explanatory; just enumerating through modelstate errors and wrapping errors in dom element of your choice. There is an error that is if i use it like:
<%:Html.MyValidationSummary()%>
It will display html tags on the page as text rather than rendering it.
<%=Html.MyValidationSummary()%>
This works fine.