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Hi Ray,

I have a simple form where on the <input > line in certain fields I have required="true" and this brings up a little box requesting that data be entered into that field. This works perfectly on the few fields I want the user to add information. The one problem is the HTML editor. I cannot find a way to make this a required field. Is there a simple way to do this without having to redo the form with validations?

Thanks

You could use our jquery validation and there is a technique to add validation to html editors. The other option is to use server validation for the html editor and keep the html5 validation for the other fields.

I have tried several times to add server validation just to html editor but only partially successfully.. The behavior is added but if nothing typed into editor it does not bring up a notice to fill in a value. It just recycles back to the same page with all the fields blank and does not give an indication whether it added the information or not.

You have to add the notice onto the page manually and select it to apply the "Validation Show If" server behavior to show the message if it fails.

Then you have to use the bindings to bind all of your form elements to the "Validated Field" values to re-populate them once the validation fails.

If you do that and still have issues, then attach the file you are working on in your reply and I can take a look to see if I can spot the issue.

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This all looks good. I think you just haven't added a message to the page that says it is required and used the "Validation Show If" server behavior to display that message when the validation fails. Everything else seems in place.

Thanks for your help Ray but that still wasn't working and so instead of wasting more time on it I created a new form instead. It is mostly working, I think, so I'll spend time on that instead.

OK let me know if you need help. Always attach a copy of the page so I can see what you have done so far.

Thanks Mike, will do. The new form did a couple of strange things in the creation but I have it all straightened out and working well now..