HOWTO trigger MVC 3 validation from jQuery

Have you ever wonder how to trigger de MVC 3 form validations from jQuery? ... well, I've done it, and belive me, I spend more than an hour finding out how to. So, the answer is pretty simple: to trigger the validators do something like

$('#MyForm').validate().form();

And for checking if the all the validations get passed look for something like

var isMyFormValid = $('#MyForm').validate().valid();

That's all.

(The answer was found thanks to the ASP.NET forums)

Test your javascript code online

Some time ago thanks to an answer at StackOverflow I discovered an amazing web service called jsfiddle. Basically it allows you to test your JavaScript code online with the option to make use of some of the most popular frameworks out there (like jQuery, Mootools, YUI, Dojo, etc..), and if you need so, you can share your "fiddles" too.

An excellent tool that always come handy.

HOW TO: render an MVC 3 partial view dinamically with jQuery

Maybe the question in this StackOverflow thread is a little bit too specific, but the most voted answer is a good an short example of how to render an MVC 3 partial view dinamically with jQuery.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5628611/asp-net-mvc-3-partial-view-dynamically-rendered-and-linked-from-dynamic-list-in

Cascading dropdown lists with jQuery

Here is a [1]GitHub link to a small jQuery plug-in that helps to make <select> HTML elements to refresh their content from a JSON source in response to the 'change' event of another <select> element.

The code is based on this Stack Overflow thread: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4458970/cascading-drop-downs-in-mvc-3-razor-view.

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[1]https://github.com/manuelnavarroc/jquery.cascade-select