title: ASP.net viewstate changes validation and jQquery AJAX
body: <p>Ok, so the problem is as follows: I'm using jQuery's AJAX in order to make behind the scene calls within the page (on events such as voting an item) and changing the content in the appropriate element. The problem occurs when I mix AJAX with ASP.net's AJAX, more precisely when I try to do a postback AFTER I've used jQuery on the page to perform an action. The page's viewstate is changed and validation fails (which would seem somewhat normal as a matter of fact). </p>
  
  <p>My question is: can I disable the validation somehow so that I can perform postbacks combined with the chaged page viewstate? So far searching on how to disable it yielded no results.</p>
  
  <p>A more practical example is on a comments page where I allow voting the comments and posting new comments as well. So should a user vote a comment and THEN post his own, the page's contents is changed, and thus validation fails. Also, I've tried placing the comment form within an update panel as to prevent the entire page from posting, but it still fails.</p>
  
  <p>Of course I could use an alternate route and have a different page for handling the event and just call that via jQuery's AJAX, but I was wondering if I could do this by combining ASP.net and jQuery.</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance.</p>