ASP.NET MVC 3 unobtrusive client-side validation with dynamic content

Question

I have enabled unobtrusive client side validation in my app, and I have (something similar) to this model:

public class MyModel
{
    [Required]
    public strin         


        

Answer 1

You dont need the form in your partial (theres an advantage at times to keeping it out, for ex. ajax forms and not having to rebind to a new form upon each load).

In your partial simply add

{ ViewContext.FormContext = new FormContext()} 

and the attributes will be written out.