ASP.NET MVC 3 / 4 ValidationMessageFor without html markup

Question

Is there are a way to utilize Html.ValidationMessageFor() to return the validation text without the HTML markup around it?

Currently this code:

@Html.ValidationMessageFor(m => m.SomeProperty)

Returns this:

<span class="field-validation-error" data-valmsg-for="Model.SomeProperty" data-valmsg-replace="true">This field is required.</span>

And I would much prefer this:

This field is required.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/573302/how-do-i-get-the-collection-of-model-state-errors-in-asp-net-mvc — m0s, May 07 '13 at 18:19

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:16

m0s's comment pointed me to this StackOverflow question/answer. (How do I get the collection of Model State Errors in ASP.NET MVC?)

This is probably redundant but here is my working solution:

@if (ViewData.ModelState.ContainsKey("SomeProperty))
{
     @Html.TextBoxFor(m => m.SomeProperty), 
          new {
               @some_attribute = ViewData.ModelState["SomeProperty"].Errors[0].ErrorMessage })     
}

Obviously, you want to ensure your ModelState has errors before addressing the first one, in my case this will always be true.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered May 07 '13 at 18:28

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Try: htmlHelper.ValidationMessage(string ModelName). I think that returns the string without the markup.

answered May 07 '13 at 18:28

KennyZ

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Unfortunately that returns the same result. – Dan Waterbly May 07 '13 at 20:32
Only other thing I can suggest is a custom template to display the error message and strip the unwanted html away inside the template. – KennyZ May 07 '13 at 20:37

ASP.NET MVC 3 / 4 ValidationMessageFor without html markup

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