<p>I have a page with many forms in panels and usercontrols, and a requiredfield validator I just added to one form is preventing all of my other forms from submitting. what's the rule that I'm not following?</p>

[{'answer_id': 35213, 'author': 'Serhat Ozgel', 'author_id': 31505, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/31505', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>You should be setting ValidationGroup property to a different value for each group of elements. Your validator's ValidationGroup must only be same with the control that submit its form.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 35226, 'author': 'Jonathan S.', 'author_id': 2034, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2034', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Are you using ValidationGroups?  Try assigning each control with a validation group as well as the validator that you want to use.  Something like:</p>\n\n<pre><code>&lt;asp:TextBox ID="txt1" ValidationGroup="Group1" ruant="server" /&gt;\n&lt;asp:RequiredFieldValidator ID="rfv1" ... ValidationGroup="Group1" /&gt;\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Note, if a button doesn\'t specify a validation group it will validate all controls that aren\'t assigned to a validation group.</p>\n'}]
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