Color of Validation Text

by | 10 Apr 2013

You may have noticed that the color of the validation text is black in framework 4.0. To make it red again I found the following solution but some users say that it doesn’t work always.

<?xml version=”1.0″?>

<configuration>

<system.web>

<compilation debug=”false” targetFramework=”4.0” />

<pages controlRenderingCompatibilityVersion=”3.5″ />

</system.web>

</configuration>

Therefore, I was looking for a different solution and I found it; I am adding the followings in my skin file and they work fine for me

<asp:RangeValidator runat=“server” ForeColor= “Red” />

<asp:CustomValidator runat=“server” ForeColor= “Red” />

<asp:RequiredFieldValidator runat=“server” ForeColor= “Red” />

<asp:CompareValidator runat=“server” ForeColor= “Red” />

<asp:RegularExpressionValidator runat=“server” ForeColor= “Red” />

<asp:ValidationSummary runat=“server” ForeColor= “Red” />

Also, you can create a class in CSS style sheet and use that in every validation control but I liked the skin file solution better because you just write once and you are done; simple…

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