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I have created the view in MVC 4.0 and i have placed four text boxes and two submit buttons, one for create and one for cancel. Validation should be occur for the text boxes while i am clicking the create button. while clicking the cancel button, we need disable the validation. in ASP.NET, we can achieve this by setting the CausesValidation = false for the cancel button. in MVC 4.0, how we will achieve this? Could you please help me on this.

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vellaichamy
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Just add class="cancel" to the button

For example,

<input type="submit" name="btnCancel" value="Cancel" class="cancel"/>

Updated

Use this link to identify which submit button has been pressed.

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Ashwini Verma
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  • if i add "cancel" css class, it prevents the client side validation. in my case, i want to call the different action method in the same controller while clicking the cancel button. now it calls the same action method – vellaichamy Jul 02 '14 at 11:16
  • But, you specifically asked to avoid client side validation on cancel button. However, I have updated my answer and added link where you'll get idea how to do that. – Ashwini Verma Jul 02 '14 at 11:22
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    What does the class `cancel` do here? Is that a class jquery validation looks at before running client side validation? – Mustafa Oct 19 '17 at 02:39
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you don't have to make a cancel button submit instead you can make it link button 

 @Html.ActionLink("Back","ActionName")

or you can make it <input type="button" value="Cancel" onclick="JsFunction()" /> the two cases they will not affect with validation

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