Remote validation not working for partial view in asp.net mvc 5

Question

I have an editor field declared in razor partial view as

    <div class="form-group">
        @Html.LabelFor(model => model.sifra_materijala, new { @class = "control-label col-md-2" })
        <div class="col-md-10">
            @Html.EditorFor(model => model.sifra_materijala)
            @Html.ValidationMessageFor(model => model.sifra_materijala)
        </div>
    </div>

View is called with "RenderPartial" from index.

This generate's html:

<input type="text" value="" name="sifra_materijala" id="sifra_materijala" 
data-val-remote-url="/NormativiMaterijala/MaterijalUPoziciji" 
data-val-remote-additionalfields="*.sifra_materijala" 
data-val-remote="'sifra_materijala' is invalid." 
data-val="true" class="text-box single-line">

I also have

    [HttpGet]
    public virtual JsonResult MaterijalUPoziciji(string sifra_materijala)
    { 
       // do some checking and return json result..
    }

and

    [Remote("MaterijalUPoziciji", "NormativiMaterijala", ErrorMessage = "Already Exists")]
    public string sifra_materijala { get; set; }

in model that need to be checked... All this just don't work for no obvious reason. I checked spelling, jquery unobtrusive scripts and everything is ok, but validation method is never called.

For things to be even more confusing, i have all this on another page working perfectly fine...

Can someone help me with this?

EDIT: Checking page in firebug show that no request is send after exiting/changing editbox with data that need to be validated...

I also have scripts included.

<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery-2.1.0.js")"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.unobtrusive-ajax.min.js")" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.js")"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/jquery.validate.unobtrusive.js")"></script>
<script src="@Url.Content("~/Scripts/bootstrap.min.js")"></script>

I also added second validation, that is not remote and this one is working but remote is still dead...

[StringLength(10, MinimumLength = 5, ErrorMessage = "Sifra must be minimum 5 characters long")]
        [Remote("MaterijalUPoziciji", "NormativiMaterijala", ErrorMessage = "Already Exists")]
        public string sifra_materijala { get; set; }

Answer 1

Solved it after sleepless night of trying and error... problem was in "virtual" declaration of my controller function.. Removed that and working perfect now...

[HttpGet]
    public JsonResult MaterijalUPoziciji(string sifra_materijala)
    { 
       // do some checking and return json result..
    }

I hope this answer will help someone sometime...

Answer 2

I had a similar problem that no client side validation including Remote was working in a partial view. In my case because the jquery.validate bundle was in the containing page, while the partial was being loaded via ajax. I had to move the jquery.validate js script into the partial view:

 @Scripts.Render("~/bundles/jqueryval")