How to turn required field validator off when selecting cancel button

Question

I have a problem where my page has a required field validator, but I also want to use a 'cancel' button which will take the user back to the menu page using response.redirect("default.aspx");

Problem is the field validator keeps firing when you click the cancel button. How do you turn this off so the user can return to the menu page?

Answer 1

Just add CausesValidation="false" to your button definition and it won't raise any validators:

<asp:Button ID="btnCancel" runat="server" Text="Cancel" CausesValidation="false" />