validators

[Roman]

Hi,

I am relatively new to dotnet and have heard great things about form
validation and how easy it is. While I can see some improvements compared
with classic asp I am a bit disappointed at how inflexible it seems.

The requirement I have is that when form fields contain invalid data, ie not
filled in, incorrect date etc, the background color of the form field must
be set to red until the data is valid. After playing around with the
validators I saw this was a little bit more difficult than I thought. I
thought the best way to go was to use the customvalidator and write my own
server-side and client-side functions. the problem I see is that I need to
write just as much code as I needed before (with classic asp) and code reuse
becomes a problem.

When I am implementing my javascript I have to use a function in the format:
function myvalidator{source, arguments}. I can set the background color of
the textbox within this function but how do I create a generic function that
accepts the textbox as an argument so it can be reused on every page without
writing this function for each field that needs to be validated?

Any advice would be appreciated.