Using the Pattern Attribute in HTML5 - javascript

I have a form in HTML5 and I want to add validation elements to the name, address and phone fields. So far I have the following code:
name='name' pattern='(-.''[A-Za-z])'
name='phone' pattern='[0-9+()x-' ']'
name='address' pattern='[0-9A-Za-z][.,#/\:;''&*]'
For the name, I need it to be able to accept the -'. symbols.
For the phone, I need it to be able to accept +()0-9 x and space.
For address, I need it to be able to accept all of the characters I've put there.
I'm not sure I've done it right though, as when testing I don't get error messages.

You need to enclose the pattern in " as you are also using ' within your pattern itself.
Sample for the name field, including the correct pattern string:
<form>
<input type="text" name="name" required pattern="[-.'A-Za-z]+" /><input type="submit">
</form>
(assuming you want to allow -'. plus the characters, your requirements are not 100% clear to me)

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How to recheck required input fields in JavaScript/HTML5

I'm trying to stay away from JQuery for this one (nothing against JQuery, I just don't want to load a huge library into this project for something small like this).
I'm curious how I might tell HTML5 to recheck all the required input fields in a given form. For example, I have this form (albeit slightly more complicated but you get the point):
<form action="here" onsubmit="check()">
<input required name="something">
<input type="submit">
</form>
If I don't have anything in that required field, HTML5 shows a popup error, something to the effect of "Please fill in this required field". What is stopping the user from putting in a single space, or some nonsense character like % or >? I'd like to partially validate this client-side (in addition to server side) so it isn't particularly inconvenient when the page redirects to the form submission page and then shows the error, and then goes back to the form, prompting the user to enter everything over again.
Assuming in my onsubmit function check I've removed all whitespace and/or nonsense characters from the ends of the string, how can that function then tell HTML5 to recheck the form to see if the required fields are still not empty?
Instead of onsubmit="check()" use addEventListener.
Now you can do everything with input data.
document.getElementById("submit").addEventListener("click", function(event){
var something = document.getElementById("something").value;
document.getElementById("something").value = something.replace(/[^A-Z0-9]/ig, "");
});
<form action="here">
<input required name="something" id="something">
<input type="submit" id="submit">
</form>
try to use regexp pattern (e.g. exclude white chars: [^\s]*, allow only letters [A-Za-z]*, ...)
<form action="here" onsubmit="check()">
<input required pattern="[^\s]*" name="something" >
<input type="submit">
</form>

Regex problems with angularjs

I am trying to use a regular expression to validate an email address. It does not seem to be doing any validation at all. When I load the page the Submit button is disabled because of the $pristine but as soon as I type a letter the button becomes enabled. Also I am aware that the regex is only accepting upper-case at the moment. The following code is my form:
<form name="myForm" ng-hide="email" >
Insert Email : <br/>
<input type="text" name="email" ng-pattern="/^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+#[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]
{2,4}$/" ng-model="insert_email" required>
<br/>
<button ng-hide="email"
type="submit"
ng-disabled="myForm.email.$pristine || myForm.email.$invalid">Submit</button>
</form>
I am not sure but I think the problem may lie with the regex itself.
take out the email in myForm.email.$pristine and in myForm.email.$invalid
to look like:
myForm.$pristine
and
myForm.$invalid
also try with ng-required instead of required
It seems to be two things. It looks like the ng-pattern expects an expression instead of a string attribute.
So you need to wrap it in a string if you want to use an inline expression.
Like so:
ng-pattern="'^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+#[A-Z0-9.-]+\\.[A-Z]{2,4}$'"
Also, there seems to be some issues with your regex. I changed it to this:
ng-pattern="'^[a-zA-Z0-9._%+-]+#[a-zA-Z0-9.-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}$'"
It seems to work.
Plunker Demo

AngularJS problems evaluating regex ng-pattern

I'm using ng-pattern argument in input text to limit input to numeric values:
<input type="text" ng-model="numericField" ng-pattern="/^[0-9]*$/" />
But there is a strange behavior in regex evaluation: starting and ending spaces are ignored...
So if I insert these values (for example) I get different results:
' 123 ' pattern matched
' 123 4343 ' pattern not matched
In my case white spaces are not allowed (in any position of the string).
Update I need to solve the problem also for other inputs allowing char values (i.e. email)
So how can I solve this?
Why not just use:
<input type="number" ng-model="numericfield" />
html5 behaviour is implemented by angular in older browsers.
You can add ng-trim="false" to your input text:
<input type="text" ng-model="numericField" ng-pattern="/^[0-9]*$/" ng-trim="false" />
Take a look here

Angularjs Form/Field validation using JavaScript function without directives

Is there a way to validate a field in angular without using a directive?
For example: I want to make following validation on an input field.
If field is empty we should show "Field must contain a value" message.
if field contains alpha Numeric characters we should show "Field can contain only digits".
An EVEN number - message to the user "Value must be an even number".
I want to make following validation in a call to JavaScript function.
I googled around and saw that there is a way to use ng-valid and $error , however I was not managed to make it work.
Code below is according to one of the answers I got:
<div ng-app>
<form name='theForm' novalidate>
<input type='text' name='theText' ng-model='theText' ng-pattern='/^[0-9]+$/'/>
<span ng-show='theForm.theText.$error.pattern'>Field can contain only digits</span>
<span ng-show='theText.length<1'>Field must contain a value</span>
<span ng-show='theText%2!=0&&document.getElementsByName("theText").value!=""&&!theForm.theText.$error.pattern&&!theForm.theText.$pristine'>Value must be an even number</span>
<br/><input type='submit' value='Submit' />
</form>
I want to take what inside the last [span] and put inside a JavaScript function in order to make it more generic and eventually change only JS and not the HTML when conditions are changing
Can someone please advise? a working example would be great.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned ui-validate
$scope.isOdd = function($value){
return $value % 2;
}
...
<form name="myform">
<input ng-model="myVal" name="value" required
ng-pattern="/^[0-9]*$/" ui-validate=" 'isOdd($value)' "></input>
<pre>{{myform.value.$error|json}}</pre>
</form>
Doesn't get any simpler than that, and it's PROPER AngularJS validation (not silly watches)
Here's a working demo
Take a look at the angularjs form documentation - http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/forms . In general, it is based on the HTML5 attributes like required, min, max, etc.
To get, for example, your first requirement done - "an empty field should show "Field must contain a value" message, yo uwould do something like that:
<input type="text" ng-model="user.name" name="uName" required /><br />
<div ng-show="form.uName.$invalid">
<span ng-show="form.uName.$error.required">Field must contain a value.</span>
</div>
For digits only field you can use the pattern attribute with a matching regular expression (example: http://www.wufoo.com/html5/attributes/10-pattern.html).
For even number validation, I'm not sure - I think you'd have to go with custom validation for that (meaning you'd have to create a directive) or use the pattern attribute somehow.
Last but not least - remember to add novalidate to the <form> tag. Otherwise the browser will try to validate your fields as well and you don't want that:
<form ... novalidate>
...
</form>
I know the question is old and I know you didn't want a directive but you may consider using a directive if it's "Angular" way... Well here is my Angular-Validation. I made a project on Github and I think that it just rocks compare to whatever is/was available...I based myself on the excellent Laravel PHP Framework and made it available under Angular... It is so crazy simple, you need 2 lines 1 line of code, 1 line for the input, 1 line for error display, that's it... never more and never less!!! Enough said, let's give some examples:
<!-- example 1 -->
<label for="input1">Email</label>
<input type="text" validation="email|min_len:3|max_len:25|required" ng-model="form1.input1" name="input1" />
<!-- example 2 -->
<label for="input2">Alphanumeric + Exact(3) + required</label>
<input type="text" validation="alpha|exact_len:3|required" ng-model="form1.input2" name="input2" />
So I can define whatever amount of validation rules (already 25+ type of validators) which I want in a simple directive validation="min_len:2|max_len:10|required|integer" and the error message will always display in the next <span> Don't you guys like it already? 1 line of code for your input, 1 line of code for the error display, you can't be simpler than that...oh and I even support your custom Regex if you want to add. Another bonus, I also support whichever trigger event you want, most common are probably onblur and onkeyup. Oh and I also support multiple localization languages via JSON external files. I really added all the imaginable features I wanted into 1 crazy simple directive.
No more clustered Form with 10 lines of code for 1 input (sorry but always found that a little extreme) when the only thing you need is 2 lines, no more, even for an input with 5 validators on it. And no worries about the form not becoming invalid, I took care of that as well, it's all handled the good "Angular" way.
Take a look at my Github project Angular-Validation... I'm sure you'll love it =)
UPDATE
Another candy bonus! To make an even more smoother user experience, I added validation on timer. The concept is simple, don't bother the user while he's typing but do validate if he makes a pause or change input (onBlur)... Love it!!!
You can even customize the timer as per your liking, I've decided to default it to 1 second within the directive but if you want to customize you can call as for example typing-limit="5000" to make a 5 sec. timeout. Full example:
<input type="text" ng-model="form1.input1" typing-limit="5000" validation="integer|required" name="input1" />
<span class="validation text-danger"></span>
UPDATE #2
Also added input match confirmation validation (ex.: password confirmation), here is a sample code
<!-- input match confirmation, as for example: password confirmation -->
<label for="input4">Password</label>
<input type="password" name="input4" ng-model="form1.input4" validation="alpha|min_len:4|required" />
<label for="input4c">Password Confirmation</label>
<input type="password" name="input4c" ng-model="form1.input4c" validation="match:form1.input4,Password|required" />
UPDATE #3
Refactored the directive so that the requirement of having a <span> to display the error is unnecessary, the directive now handles it by itself, see the code change reflected on top.
DEMO
Added a live demo on Plunker
Well you can try to create a func
<span ng-show='isEven(theText)'>Value must be an even number</span>
$scope.isEven=function(data) {
if(data) {
return data%2===0
}
return true;
}
The method can either be defined on the current controller scope or on $rootScope.
Not a very angular way, as directives would be better but i think it would work.

How can I validate a full name input in a form using javascript?

I would like to write a function to validate a full name input in a form with Javascript:
a single word will be ok, a string with some blank character among name surname, middle name too, but I do not want any digit.
Any suggestion?
There are several ways to write this, but, simply, the regular expression
/^[a-zA-Z ]+$/
should work for you. It will find any combination of alpha characters and spaces but no digits.
Edit to add the information from my comment, which I feel is important:
You may also wish to add the apostrophe and hyphen between the brackets, since Irish and Italian names include the former (O'Donnell, D'Ambrosio) and some folks have hyphenated last names (Claude Levi-Strauss, Ima Page-Turner, etc.).
This would result in the following expression:
/^[a-zA-Z'- ]+$/
Try this RegEx for maximum compatibility:
Don't forget to escape the single quote-marks (') if you put this in a JavaScript string enclosed with single quotes.
^(?:((([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-.\s])){1,}(['’,\-\.]){0,1}){2,}(([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-. ]))*(([ ]+){0,1}(((([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-\.\s])){1,})(['’\-,\.]){0,1}){2,}((([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-\.\s])){2,})?)*)$
Example:
function checkName(eid){ alert(/^(?:((([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-.\s])){1,}(['’,\-\.]){0,1}){2,}(([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-. ]))*(([ ]+){0,1}(((([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-\.\s])){1,})(['’\-,\.]){0,1}){2,}((([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-\.\s])){2,})?)*)$/.test(document.getElementById(eid).value)? 'Congratulations! You entered a valid name.' : 'Sorry, You entered an invalid name. Please try again.');};
*
{
color:#535353;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
}
input:valid
{
background-color: #DEFFDF;
}
input:invalid
{
background-color: #C7D7ED;
}
<form action="#" method="post" onsubmit="checkName('full_name');return false;">
<label for ="full_name">Your Name: </label>
<input type="text" name="full_name" id="full_name" maxlength="85" pattern="^(?:((([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-.\s])){1,}(['’,\-\.]){0,1}){2,}(([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-. ]))*(([ ]+){0,1}(((([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-\.\s])){1,})(['’\-,\.]){0,1}){2,}((([^0-9_!¡?÷?¿/\\+=##$%ˆ&*(){}|~<>;:[\]'’,\-\.\s])){2,})?)*)$" title="Please enter your FULL name." style='width:200px;height:auto;' required>
<br><br>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
<button type="reset">Reset</button>
</form>
I would suggest not putting so much effort in validating data via JS. If a user has JS disabled, you will end up with some data you don't want on database.
Validate it via the server side.
Now, regards your question, I would try with regular expressions.

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