mvc stop clientside validation on a certain field?

Question

I have the following property in my model: ``` [DisplayName("Pay to RE Date")] public DateTime? PaymentToRE { get; set; } ``` Whenever I type in something that is not a valid date, I get the message: ``` The value 'asdas' is not valid for Pay to RE Date. ``` I however, did not want validation happening at this point, as I have other properties which I need to validate and want all to validate together. The others require me to look up information in the database, so I did not want client side validation on this field. Is there anyway to disable it? This is used in my view as below: ``` @Html.LabelFor(model => model.PaymentToRE, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })

@{Html.EnableClientValidation(false);} @Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.PaymentToRE, "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}", new { @class = "datepicker-input form-control" }) @{Html.EnableClientValidation(true);} @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.PaymentToRE)

``` I tried using the Html.EnableClientValida…

Accepted Answer

I guess you are using jQuery validation plugin. You can use its option `ignore`. http://jqueryvalidation.org/validate/#ignore

Add a ignore class to you textbox:

```
@Html.TextBoxFor(model => model.PaymentToRE, "{0:MM/dd/yyyy}", new { @class = "datepicker-input form-control no-client-validation" })
```

And add to jQuery validation option `ignore` the new class `no-client-validation`:

```
$.validator.setDefaults({
    ignore: '.no-client-validation, :hidden' //:hidden is default value
});
```

EDIT

Or you switch to remote validation, might be overhead in your case.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg508808%28vs.98%29.aspx

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