Thanks.

However we found a way of integrating jQuery.validate with Microsofts unobtrusive validation.

The way to do this is to include the unobtrusive library dynacmically after the $(‘form’).Validate({…}); is executed.

This can be done with the follwoing code

$.getScript(‘/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js’);

$(‘form{{or whatever your form id is…}}’).each(function (i, o) {        var settings = $(o).data(‘validator’).settings;        settings.errorPlacement = //blah blah
        settings.[whatever other options you need to apply] = //blah blah
});

Only unfortunate thing is, you have to wait to run the above code until after you’ve rendered that form to the browser and parsed it with the validation logic (works great for forms that are parsed at load time, but dynamically generated forms that show up later need this ran for them after they’re parsed by validation.

For more on how to get dynamically generated content to get hooked into jquery.validate.unobtrusive see the following article:

http://xhalent.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/applying-unobtrusive-validation-to-dynamic-content/

$(this).validate();  });

Thanks!