I forgot to say Thank You for the responses so far.  I have learned a lot from them.  I appreciate it.

The form is dynamic.  I was looking to not have the red "required" border show up until the user hit the Submit button.  I don't want to write javascript for every required field.  The red border is showing up on initial rendering of the form.

I'm getting the red border to show up when the form loads for a User Entered - Recommended textbox .  Seems the Validate event is firing when the form initializes.  There is no data connection, so the textbox is not being assigned a value.  Anyone know how to stop this?