I'm trying to make this registration form work even if javascript is disabled, I don't know where to begin. Would really appreciate some help!
HTML:
<form name="news" onsubmit="validateForm()" action="thanks.html">
<input type="text" placeholder="Namn" name="name" id="name"><br>
<input type="text" placeholder="E-postadress" name="email" id="email"><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send" name="send" id="send">
</form>
Js file:
function validateForm()
{
if( document.getElementById('name').value === '' ){
alert("Please enter your name!");
return false;
}
var emailExp = /^[\w\-\.\+]+\#[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+\.[a-zA-z0-9]{2,4}$/;
if(document.news.email.value.match(emailExp))
{
return true;
}
else
{
alert("Please enter your e-mail!");
document.news.email.focus();
return false;
}
}
function init()
{
var validate = document.getElementById("send");
validate.onclick = validateForm;
}
window.onload = init;
What server-side technology are you using?
There really aren't ways to validate on client side without JavaScript.
Use the built-in server-side validation controls in ASP.NET or MVC.
Put your form validation on the server, but it appears your action is thanks.html which in most cases doesn't have any server side logic. Actually, I'm not sure how the form works with javascript other than to give the impression you took down their information.
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I'm trying to do a form and while the alert is popping up it is still submitting. How do I get it to stop submitting??
function validate() {
var first = document.register.first.value;
if (first == "") {
alert("please enter your name");
first.focus();
return false;
}
return (true);
}
<body>
<form name="register" action="testform.php" onsubmit="return(validate());">
<input type="text" name="first" />
<button type="submit" />Submit
</form>
</body>
You added the parenthesis on return() then return(validate()) which we use () when calling the function so it might be considering return a custom function which returns undefined and when returned the undefined it ignores and continue the execution.
How ever the validate is called but it's response is not returned to the form.
Fixed version:
<head>
<script>
function validate(e) {
var first = document.register.first.value;
console.log(document.register.first)
if( first == "" ) {
alert( "please enter your name" ) ;
return false;
}
return(true);
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form name="register" action="testform.php" onsubmit="return validate()">
<input type="text" name="first" />
<button type="submit" >sbmit</button>
</form>
</body>
You are better of using the required attribute on the front end of things. It will 'force' the user to input text into the input field before it is able to submit. Please note that I put quotation marks around the word 'force', because one can just edit the HTML and circumvent the HTML required attribute. Therefore make absolutely sure that you are validating user input on the PHP side as well.
Many tutorials and examples exist for PHP Form Validation, such as this one from W3Schools and this one from Medium.
<form name="register" action="testform.php">
<input type="text" name="first" required/>
<input type="submit" value="Submit"/>
</form>
You have several bugs in your code.
<button> element is not self-closing
you are calling focus on value of the input instead of the input element which throws exception
function validate() {
var input = document.register.first;
var text = input.value;
if( text == "" ) {
alert( "please enter your name" ) ;
input.focus();
return false;
}
return true;
}
I think the issue is with the button's type="submit". Try changing it to type="button", with an onclick function that submits your form if validate() returns true.
edit: Arjan makes a good point, and you should use required. But this answers why the form was submitting.
I want to do a very basic jQuery validation of an email via a regex on submit. My HTML:
<form action="POST" id="form">
<input type="email" id="customer_email" placeholder="email here" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
JS:
$('#form').submit(function() {
var email_reg = /^([\w-\.]+#([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/;
var emailinput = $('#customer_email').value();
if (email_reg.test(emailinput) == false) {
window.alert('no good');
}
});
To my understanding, for this to work I need to get the value of the input via email input (which I do on line 4) and run a regex on it.
When submit is clicked, the standard input error appears on the form, and not the window alert. Feel free to view a Codepen outlining this here:
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/oYmJLW?editors=1010
You need to add event.preventDefault() to prevent the actual form submission, and use .val() instead of .value() on the input.
$('#form').submit(function(event) {
event.preventDefault();
var email_reg = /^([\w-\.]+#([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/;
var emailinput = $('#customer_email').val();
if (email_reg.test(emailinput) == false) {
window.alert('no good');
}
});
By declaring your input as type="email" your browser will do the validity checking (you don't need to do it yourself then), if you want to circumvent that use type="text".
I have a webpage where a user submits a form containing an email field and a confirm email field.
How do I check to make sure both of these fields equal the same thing?
<form>
Email: <input type="text" name="email"><br /><br />
Confirm Email: <input type="text" name="confirmemail"><br /><br /><br /><br />
<input type="submit" value="Submit">
</form>
With jQuery, but no error handling, I'd suggest:
$('form').on('submit', function() {
return $('input[name=email]').val() == $('input[name=confirmemail]').val();
});
Ridiculously simple JS Fiddle demo.
Easiest way would be to use Javascript as you can stop form submission before it goes to your php file. However it is still good practice to verify the data entered with the php file as well as there are some programs that will allow you to change data being submitted in a form after javascript checks are made.
<script>
function checkMatch() {
var email = document.getElementById('email').value;
var emailConfirm = document.getElementById('emailConfirm').value;
if (email != emailConfirm) {
alert("Email addresses are not the same.");
return false; //Returning 'false' will cancel form submission
} else {
/*
place the return true; at the end of the function if you do other
checking and just have if conditions and return them as false. If
one thing returns false the form submission is cancelled.
*/
return true;
}
}
</script>
And change your form to have onSubmit
<form method="post" action="submit_query.php" onSubmit="checkMatch()">
Add id's to your email inputs such as: email and emailConfirm. You can change them if you wish but just for an example I used those.
I have a form where I'm posting to PHP server page. Before I POST I do some validation test on the client side, if all good I return true and then submit starts, if there's problems I return false and the submit cancel.
<form onsubmit="return validateForm()" method="post" action="t5.php">
and the validation function :
function validateForm() {
email = document.getElementById('email').value;
name = document.getElementById('name').value;
if ((name==="")|| (email=="") ) {
document.getElementById('validateError').innerHTML="error text";
return false;
}
else
return true;
};
This logic works on last Chrome version, but tried this on Chrome 19 and Firefox and its returns false but still doing immediately a submit.
any ideas?
Instead on calling your validate function on "onsubmit", you can call a similar function on a button click and then if no errors, submit the form via code
Try something like
<form name="testform" id="testform" method="post" action="t5.php">
<input type="text" name="name" id="name"/>
<input type="text" name="email" id="email"/>
<input type="button" name="Submit" value="Submit" onclick="validateSubmitForm();"/>
</form>
validateSubmitForm function might have something like this
function validateSubmitForm() {
var email = document.getElementById('email').value;
var name = document.getElementById('name').value;
if ((name=="")|| (email=="") ) {
document.getElementById('validateError').innerHTML="error text";
}
else {
document.testform.submit();
}
}
Try using preventDefault() to stop the form from submtting.
and HTMLFormElement.submit() to submit if everything is Ok.
Try this one :
Java script
function validateForm(e) {
email = document.getElementById('email').value;
name = document.getElementById('name').value;
if ((name=="")|| (email=="") ) {
document.getElementById('validateError').innerHTML="error text";
e.preventDefault();
}
};
HTML
<form onsubmit="validateForm(event)" method="post" action="t5.php">
There are other questions regarding validating email addresses with javascript. There are also questions regarding validating forms. However I cannot get my code to work, and cannot find a question to cover this particular issue.
Edit
I totally understand that in a live website, server side validation is vital. I also understand the value of sending email confirmation. (I actually have a site that has all these features). I know how to code spam checks in php.
In this instance I have been asked to validate the email input field. I have to conform to xhtml 1.0 strict, so cannot use the type "email", and I am not allowed to use server side scripts for this assignment. I cannot organise email confirmation, it has to be totally checked via javascript.
I hope this clarifies my question
I am trying to validate a form for two things.
To check that all fields have data.
To see if a valid email address is entered.
I am able to validate a form fields for data, but trying to incorporate the email check is a trouble for me.
It was giving alerts before, but incorrectly, now it is not being called at all (or at least that is how it is behaving).
Once I get this working I then need to focus on checking if the email addresses match. However this is an issue outside of this question.
I am only focused on validating this in javascript. I am not concerned about server side in this particular instance (another issue outside of this question). Thanks.
function Validate()
{
var inputs = [document.getElementById('fname'),_
document.getElementById('lname'), document.getElementById('email1'),_
document.getElementById('email2')];
for(var i = 0; i<inputs.length; i++)
{
if(inputs[i].value == '')
{
alert('Please complete all required fields.');
return false;
}
else if ((id =='email1' || 'email2') &&_
(inputs[i].value!= /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*#\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/ )){
alert('Please enter a valid email address.');
return false;
}
}
}
<form onsubmit="return Validate()" action="" method="post" id="contactForm" >
<input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" />
<input type="text" name="lname" id="lname" />
<input type="text" name="email1" id="email1" />
<input type="text" name="email2" id="email2"/>
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" />
</form>
A side note - to format text that wraps, is it ok (for the purposes of posting a question, to add and underscore and create a new line for readability? In the actual text I have it doesn't have this! Please advise if there is a simpler way to format my code for posts. Thanks again.
Edit 2
It works when I comment out this:
/*else if ((id =='email1' || id=='email2') && (inputs[i].value!= /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*#\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/ )){
alert('Please enter a valid email address.');
return false;
}*/
So this helps with the trouble shooting.
I already see a syntax error there :
else if ((id =='email1' || 'email2')
should be
else if ((id =='email1' || id=='email2')
from where I see it.
Note also that entering a space in any field will also pass through the test : you should trim your field values when testing for empty ones.
finally, concerning validating the email, this is not how you use regex. Please read this post for a demonstration on how to validate an email in javascript+regex.
var a=document.getElementById('fname');
var b=document.getElementById('lname');
var c=document.getElementById('email1');
var d=document.getElementById('email12')
if(a==""||b==""||c==""||d=="")
{
alert('Please complete all required fields.');
return false;
}
The best thing to do with validating an email address is to send an email to the address. Regex just doesn't work for validating email addresses. You may be able to validate normal ones such as john.doe#email.com but there are other valid email addresses you will reject if you use regex
Check out Regexp recognition of email address hard?
AND: Using a regular expression to validate an email address
I worked out the solution to my problem as follows. I also have in here a check to see if emails match.
// JavaScript Document
//contact form function
function ValidateInputs(){
/*check that fields have data*/
// create array containing textbox elements
var inputs = [document.getElementById("fname"),_
document.getElementById("lname"), document.getElementById("message"),_
document.getElementById("email1"), document.getElementById("email2")];
for(var i = 0; i<inputs.length; i++){
// loop through each element to see if value is empty
if(inputs[i].value == ""){
alert("Please complete all fields.");
return false;
}
else if ((email1.value!="") && (ValidateEmail(email1)==false)){
return false;
}
else if ((email2.value!="") && (EmailCheck(email2)==false)){
return false;
}
}
}
function ValidateEmail(email1){
/*check for valid email format*/
var reg =/^.+#.+$/;
if (reg.test(email1.value)==false){
alert("Please enter a valid email address.");
return false;
}
}
function EmailCheck(email2){
var email1 = document.getElementById("email1");
var email2 = document.getElementById("email2");
if ((email2.value)!=(email1.value)){
alert("Emails addresses do not match.");
return false;
}
}
<form onsubmit="return ValidateInputs();" method="post" id="contactForm">
<input type="text" name="fname" id="fname" />
<input type="text" name="lname" id="lname" />
<input type="text" onblur="return ValidateEmail(this);" name="email1" id="email1" />
<input type="text" onblur="return EmailCheck(this);" name="email2" id="email2"/>
<input type="submit" value="submit" name="submit" />
</form>