Thanks benwizle, I had a quick look at this but don't seem to have access to the validation controls, within the gridview, on the page. I tink could get a readonly refrence from GridView1.Contr ols collection but can't call the validate method on that.
Am I missing something obvious here :o)...

Hi

This is a vb (2008) asp site.

I'm using validators in a gridview control. The columns have been converted to templates and, when editing the data the validation works as expected.

However, when the gridview first goes into Edit mode, even if the existing data fails validation, the validators don't highlight the errors UNTIL the data has been manually edited and the field loses focus. Only then do the...