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Validate email address in Javascript?
This is my first post and I have a small issue. I'm trying to validate an email address on a form, but with no luck. I found this snippet on the internet but it doesn't seem to be working. I'm using Javascript at the moment to validate it. I don't usually use JS, so any help would be appreciated.
<script type="text/javascript">
function ValidateEmail(inputText)
{
var mailformat = /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/;
if(inputText.value.match(mailformat))
{
document.forms.emailform();
return true;
}
else
{
alert("You have entered an invalid email address!");
document.forms.emailform();
return false;
}
}
<?php
$addemail .= '
<form method="post" action="cart2.php" name="emailform" onsubmit="return validateEmail">
';
$addemail .= '
E-mail Address: <input type="text" name="email" value="'.$row6['email'].'" size="19" /><input type="hidden" name="cartid" value="'.$cart.'" />';
if ( $emailerror != '' )
{
$addemail .= '<img src="images/email_error.png" width="16" height="16" hspace="4" alt="E-mail Error" />';
}
$addemail .= '
<input type="image" name="Add E-mail Address" alt="Add E-mail Address" src="images/addemail.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" />
</form>
';
if ( $row6['email'] == '' )
{
$emailpresent = 0;
}
else
{
$emailpresent = 1;
}
}
$addemail .= '
</td>
</tr>
';
}
?>
asked Dec 6, 2012 at 17:05
Ted Beeney
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2 Answers 2
Look at this example of how it can be done in Javascript:
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
function validateEmail() {
var emailText = document.getElementById('email').value;
var pattern = /^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+)*@[a-z0-9]+(\-[a-z0-9]+)*(\.[a-z0-9]+(\-[a-z0-9]+)*)*\.[a-z]{2,4}$/;
if (pattern.test(emailText)) {
return true;
} else {
alert('Bad email address: ' + emailText);
return false;
}
}
window.onload = function() {
document.getElementById('email_form').onsubmit = validateEmail;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="email_form">
<input type="text" id="email">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
Edit:
If you are sure that the users of your web page are using HTML5 compatible browsers you can use the following neater example for the same purpose:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
<form>
<input type="email" pattern="^[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+(\.[a-zA-Z0-9\-_]+)*@[a-z0-9]+(\-[a-z0-9]+)*(\.[a-z0-9]+(\-[a-z0-9]+)*)*\.[a-z]{2,4}$">
<input type="submit">
</form>
</body>
</html>
answered Dec 6, 2012 at 17:40
Felix Glas
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onsubmit="return validateEmail()"
You must add parentheses after validateEmail in order to call it or it will assume you're trying to return a method.
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not working? Is your form not submitting(there may be a typo as you are callingdocument.forms.emailForm()which is invalid)?+in them and ones from themuseumandinfoTLDs spring to mind).type="email". It has the attributepatternwhere you can specify a regex. More details here