A jQuery inline form validation, because validation is a mess

http://www.position-relative.net/creation/formValidator/

by alecco • 17 years ago

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chromoose• 17 years ago

While the submitted link is a great example of what you've made, a little context never hurts.

Seeing as you've already written a write up on your blog, why not point to that instead?.

http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/jquery-form-valida...

alecco2• 17 years ago

Oops, my bad wrong URL. Can't edit the link now.

Also, this isn't mine at all. Just found it on Reddit's web_design and thought somebody here would find it interesting. I was just rewriting a web form where I did my own inline validation.

akamaka6• 17 years ago

Cool idea, but there's no validation if JavaScript is disabled!

Shouldn't a complete solution automatically fall back to server-side validation?

pmorici• 17 years ago

You can't trust anything that is done on the user's end regardless of what they have enabled. Something like this is just a bonus from a usability prospective because the user won't have to wait until they hit submit to find out they made a mistake.

akamaka6• 17 years ago

100% right, and what I'm curious about how the validation requirements are specified. Surely you wouldn't want to do it twice, once for the server and again for the client.

Has anyone looked into this?

tomiles• 17 years ago

The email address validation is overly restrictive. Valid email addresses can contain + and other characters. So if I wanna use an email adress like myname+keyword@gmail.com it gets flagged as invalid by the script. (I use it to do filtering based on the +keyword in gmail)

alecco2• 17 years ago

That is an example. You can edit the regular expressions.

A jQuery inline form validation, because validation is a mess

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