This script is a combination of a lot of common form validation elements - checking for non-entries, image swaping to indicate invalid entries, focusing on invalid fields, and feedback to the user through an alert box.
I got tired of writing new code for every form (or even cutting and pasting a lot) so this is intended as a .js include file, and all the information necessary to validate the form is contained in the form itself.
Most validation is of the did-they-fill-it-in variety. See the comments in the script for more details. Additional validation can be performed with a customized object-oriented JavaScript function. Explanations and an example are provided in the comments.
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' for :Complete, general form validation
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<html>
<head>
// the actual JS code is downloadable below.
// it should be used as a .js include file
// this HTML is simply to provide an example of the form structure required
// <script language="javascript" src="errorCheck.js">
</head>
<body>
<form name="Fred" action="YOUR.COM/PATH.HTM" method="post" onSubmit="return errorCheck(this, 'path.to.clear.dot.gif', 'path.to.red.star.gif', false);">
<input type="password" name="up_req_userpassword">
<input type="password" name="conf_userpassword">
<input type="hidden" name="mes_userpassword" value="Please make sure that you have entered a password, and typed exactly the same way again in the confirmation box.">
</form>
</body>
</html>
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Code lookes great. I am just about to ad this to my form to validate everything. I do have one request however, I am not that great at JS so if you could please help me add a section where I could stop some people from using sertain email address from like themail.com etc.. I already have code for this but I would like to add this to your code. If you could do this for me, I will send you this code I got and then maybe you can implement this in to yours...
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I'd recommend (off the top of my head) modifying the checkEmail function. Add a JavaScript Array that contains the bad domains. Then in the "else" section of the if clause, instead of just returning true, loop through the array, and compare the domain portion of the entered address to the current values in the array. You should be able to get the domain portion using the indexOf and substring methods.
If you find a bad domain, return false, otherwise, go ahead and return true after the loop on the bad domain array is complete.
you'd end up with something like
var aryBadDomain = Array('not.me','bad.com');
for (i=0;i if (aryBadDoman[i] == strFormEmailDomain) { return false; } }
Or you could use a regular expression to do a much more complex filter on the domain. (If this comment was disrespectful, please report it.)
what exactly are the checkbox and checkselected functions checking.
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