HtmlContentControl.ValidatingEditor Event

Fires when a user edits the active in-place editor’s value and attempts to move focus away from (close) the editor. The ValidatingEditor event is only in effect for in-place editors (Repository Items) added to the UI using the ‘input’ tag.

Namespace: DevExpress.XtraEditors

Assembly: DevExpress.XtraEditors.v23.2.dll

NuGet Package: DevExpress.Win.Navigation

Declaration

C#

[DXCategory("Editor")]
public event BaseContainerValidateEditorEventHandler ValidatingEditor

VB.NET

<DXCategory("Editor")>
Public Event ValidatingEditor As BaseContainerValidateEditorEventHandler

Event Data

The ValidatingEditor event's data class is BaseContainerValidateEditorEventArgs. The following properties provide information specific to this event:

Property	Description
ErrorText	Gets or sets the error description.
Valid	Gets or sets whether the value is valid.
Value	Gets or sets the value being validated.

Remarks

See the following topic for information on how to access the active in-place editor, and the specifics of working with in-place editors: HtmlContentControl.ActiveEditor.

The ValidatingEditor event is equivalent to the RepositoryItem.Validating event.

Related API

Properties

• HtmlContentControl.ActiveEditor

Events

• HtmlContentControl.ShowingEditor
• HtmlContentControl.ShownEditor
• HtmlContentControl.ValidatingEditor
• HtmlContentControl.HiddenEditor
• HtmlContentControl.EditorValueChanged
• HtmlContentControl.EditorValueChanging
• HtmlContentControl.CustomEditor
• HtmlContentControl.CustomEditorForEditing

Methods

• HtmlContentControl.ShowEditor
• HtmlContentControl.CloseEditor
• HtmlContentControl.HideEditor
• HtmlContentControl.PostEditor
• HtmlContentControl.SetFieldValue
• HtmlContentControl.GetFieldValue