I am so trying not to make you nuts, but for the life of me I can't get the validation to work. One thing that concerns me when we get it to work is that this is the only element that is server side instead of client side and I would much prefer for it to be client side. Is that not a possibility? I've attached what I got with the changes you suggested (except for the show validation if as I haven't gotten the first part to work yet.)