Colin Graham wrote:
Hi there,
Im very new to javascript and this is my first bit of javascript
coding. I have to write a validation check for two fields that they
don't contain all the same characters e.g.,
field 1 = 111111 field 2 = 11111111
OR
field 1 = 000000 field 2 = 00000000
my script wants to check to see if this is happening and display an
error message.
I would also be agreatful if anyone could point me towards any
javascript code banks on the web as this would help speed up my
learning.
any help greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Colin
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>untitled </title>
<script type="text/javascript">
function checkit(els)
{
//get field
var field = els.something;
//strip whitespace
field.value = field.value.rep lace(/\s/g, '');
//empty?
if (/^$/.test(field.val ue))
{
alert('Please enter something.');
field.focus();
return false;
}
//get first character
var first = field.value.mat ch(/^./);
if (first)
{
//make it a regular expression
var re = new RegExp(first[0], 'g');
//remove all instances of it, test for empty field
if (/^$/.test(field.val ue.replace(re, '')))
{
alert('Entries must not consist of all the same character.');
field.focus();
field.select();
//abort submit
return false;
}
//pro-life
return true;
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<!-- call validator, pass elements object -->
<form onsubmit="retur n checkit(this.el ements)">
<input type="text" name="something " value="" />
<input type="submit" />
</form>
</body>
</html>
Studying 'code banks' (imo) will slow down, not speed up your progress.
You'll need to read some good tutorials/textbooks and progress step by
step. Here's a good one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/reader/0072...18#reader-link http://www.regular-expressions.com/tutorial.html 
