ValidationSummary.HeaderText Property
.NET Framework (current version)
Gets or sets the header text displayed at the top of the summary.
Assembly: System.Web (in System.Web.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.StringThe header text displayed at the top of the summary. The default is String.Empty.
Use this property to display a title for the ValidationSummary control.
The HeaderText property is not HTML encoded. Therefore, HTML tags can be included in HeaderText.
The value of this property, when set, can be saved automatically to a resource file by using a designer tool. For more information, see LocalizableAttribute and ASP.NET Globalization and Localization.
The following code example demonstrates how to use the HeaderText property to display a title for the ValidationSummary control.
<%@ Page Language="VB"%> <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" > <head runat="server"> <title>ASP.NET Example</title> </head> <body> <form id="form1" runat="server"> Name:<br/> <asp:textbox id="NameTextBox" runat="server"/> <asp:requiredfieldvalidator id="NameTextBoxRequiredValidator" controltovalidate="NameTextBox" errormessage="Name field." text="Please enter your name" runat="server"/> <br/> City:<br/> <asp:textbox id="CityTextBox" runat="server"/> <asp:requiredfieldvalidator id="CityTextBoxRequiredValidator" controltovalidate="CityTextBox" errormessage="City field." text="Please enter the city." runat="server"/> <br/> <asp:Button id="SubmitButton" text="Submit" runat="server"/> <hr/> <asp:ValidationSummary id="valSum" displaymode="BulletList" headertext="You must enter a value in the following fields:" runat="server"/> </form> </body> </html>
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Available since 1.1
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