I'm Lost ....Help. Validation not defined...

Hey Gang, aside from mistakenly posting this in the Java Forum first it's my first time here so be gentle. I've been learning javascript through our local college and have run up against a problem. Maybe someone can help.

I'm using a simple validation script (external js) but continually get the same message "validation is not defined" and I can't get it to work for me.... Here's the code I'm using to access my form:

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function validation(document.forms.myForm) { 
 
if (document.forms.myForm.e-mail.value.indexOf( "@" ) == -1)
 
{

alert( "Your e-mail address has been incorrectly entered. Please re-enter it" );

return false;

}

else

myForm.submit();

}

In addition to this, the reference I get when using FF javacript tool is that my first line in the html declaration <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

What am I missing...sigh. Lost in java hell...

DougB

Nov 3 '06 #1

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AricC

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This will validate an email field:

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 <html><head><script type="text/javascript">function validate_email(field,alerttxt){with (field){apos=value.indexOf("@")dotpos=value.lastIndexOf(".")if (apos<1||dotpos-apos<2) {alert(alerttxt);return false}else {return true}}}function validate_form(thisform){with (thisform){if (validate_email(email,"Not a valid e-mail address!")==false) {email.focus();return false}}}</script></head><body><form action="submitpage.htm"onsubmit="return validate_form(this);"method="post">Email: <input type="text" name="email" size="30"><input type="submit" value="Submit"> </form></body></html>
 

Nov 4 '06 #2

AricC

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I was lazy earlier here is your code changed up a bit for what you are looking for:

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 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" >

<head>

    <title>Untitled Page</title>

</head>

<script type="text/javascript">

function validation(form) 

{

var Email = form.Email.value

if (Email.indexOf( "@" ) == -1)

{

alert( "Your e-mail address has been incorrectly entered. Please re-enter it" );

return false;

}

else

myForm.submit();

}

</script>

<body>

<form name="myForm" action="testing.htm" method="post">

<input type="text" name="Email" />

<input type="button" value="Submit" onclick="validation(this.form)" />

</form>
 
</body>

</html>

HTH,
Aric

Nov 4 '06 #3

DougB

Aric,

Many thanks, I'll try it later on tonight. Much appreciated...

DougB

Nov 4 '06 #4

DougB

Hey Aric,

Still not working (sorry I had to take off for a day or two here and no wireless where I was). Would it help you to know that I'm also using a javascript "reset" function in the form? I'm starting to pull out my hair..haha

DougB

Nov 5 '06 #5

DougB

Here's the entire code...

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<form name="myForm" id="myForm" action="mailto:me@myPlace.com?subject=Member Sales" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
 
            <table>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Name</td>

                  <td colspan="2"><input name="ID" type="text" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Address </td>

        <td colspan="2"><input name="address" type="text" /></td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

        <td colspan="1">City - Province</td>

        <td  colspan="2"><input name="city-prov" type="text" /></td></tr>

<tr>

<td colspan="1">Postal Code</td><td colspan="2"> <input name="postalcode" type="text" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Home Phone</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="phone-number" /></td></tr><tr>

                  <td colspan="1">E-mail</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="e-mail"  /></td>

                </tr>
 
                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Item for Sale</td>

                  <td colspan="2">Description: <br /><input name="Sale Item" type="text" value="" /></td>
 
                </tr>

                <tr>

        <td colspan="1">Price</td>

                  <td colspan="2"><input name="amount" type="text" value="" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Today's Date (M/D/Y) </td>

                  <td colspan="2"><input name="date" type="text"  /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="3" align="center"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" onclick="validation(this.form)" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="3" align="center" onclick="javascript:document.forms.myForm.reset()"><input type="button" name="clear" value="Reset" /></td>

                </tr>

               </table>

      </form>

In the <head> section of the html I reference this script with an external javascript

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 <script type="text/javascript"> src="java/validation.js"></script>function validation(form) 

{

var Email = form.Email.value

if (Email.indexOf( "@" ) == -1)

{

alert( "Your e-mail address has been incorrectly entered. Please re-enter it" );

return false;

}

else

myForm.submit();

}

But I still can't get it to work...I'm having a D'oh moment here...please help if you can...

DougB

Nov 6 '06 #6

DougB

Anyone....help please

DougB

Nov 6 '06 #7

DougB

Greetings Gand,

I tried resetting the form values to reflect Email instead of E-mail from the form which is calls up the javascript. It didn't make any difference, can anyone help please...

DougB
up to my ears in frustration...sigh

Nov 7 '06 #8

AricC

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The code I posted works for me anyone else test it? Copy and paste it to a new notepad document and name it test.htm then try.

Edit:
Doug: You have the field names mixed up I renamed the email field from e-mail to Email ( Sorry wrote that from scratch ). On your form you still have e-mail where in your Javascript you are using Email.

HTH,
Aric

Nov 7 '06 #9

DougB

Hoooooeeeeee....well here's the test page I did (minus the correct mailto: address of course). It allowed the send no problems without valdiation. This is the code I've used and you'll note that the Email called for in the javascript is now what is being sent by the form

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<html>

<head>

<title>Test</title>

<script type="text/javascript" src="validation.js"></script>

</head>

<body>

<form name="myForm" id="myForm" action="mailto:test@myplace.com?subject=Member Sales" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
 
            <table>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Name</td>

                  <td colspan="2"><input name="ID" type="text" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Address </td>

        <td colspan="2"><input name="address" type="text" /></td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

        <td colspan="1">City - Province</td>

        <td  colspan="2"><input name="city-prov" type="text" /></td></tr>

<tr>

<td colspan="1">Postal Code</td><td colspan="2"> <input name="postalcode" type="text" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Home Phone</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="phone-number" /></td></tr><tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Email</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="email"  /></td>

                </tr>
 
                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Item for Sale</td>

                  <td colspan="2">Description: <br /><input name="Sale Item" type="text" value="" /></td>
 
                </tr>

                <tr>

        <td colspan="1">Price</td>

                  <td colspan="2"><input name="amount" type="text" value="" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Today's Date (M/D/Y) </td>

                  <td colspan="2"><input name="date" type="text"  /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="3" align="center"><input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" onclick="validation(this.form)" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="3" align="center" onclick="javascript:document.forms.myForm.reset()"><input type="button" name="clear" value="Reset" /></td>

                </tr>

               </table>

      </form>

</body>

</html>

and here's the javascript file called "validation.js"

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function validation(form) 

{

var Email = form.Email.value

if (Email.indexOf( "@" ) == -1)

{

alert( "Your e-mail address has been incorrectly entered. Please re-enter it" );

return false;

}

else

myForm.submit();

}

What am I missing.....help meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee...Thanks for being persistent!

DougB

Nov 7 '06 #10

AricC

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Expert 1GB

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 <td colspan="1">Email</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="email"  /></td>
 

Needs to be

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 <td colspan="1">Email</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="Email"  /></td>
 

Look at the name of your email field and compare it to what you have called in Javascript.

Nov 7 '06 #11

iam_clint

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I think this is what you were trying to achieve.

Ok so I didn't use the javascript include method so u will have to split the code how you want it.

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<script>

function validation(form) 

{

var Email = document.getElementById("email").value

if (Email.indexOf( "@" ) == -1)

{

alert( "Your e-mail address has been incorrectly entered. Please re-enter it" );

return false;

}

else

myForm.submit();

}

</script>

<html>

<head>

<title>Test</title>

</head>

<body>

<form name="myForm" id="myForm" action="mailto:test@myplace.com?subject=Member Sales" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
 
            <table>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Name</td>

                  <td colspan="2"><input name="ID" type="text" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Address </td>

        <td colspan="2"><input name="address" type="text" /></td>

        </tr>

        <tr>

        <td colspan="1">City - Province</td>

        <td  colspan="2"><input name="city-prov" type="text" /></td></tr>

<tr>

<td colspan="1">Postal Code</td><td colspan="2"> <input name="postalcode" type="text" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Home Phone</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="phone-number" /></td></tr><tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Email</td><td colspan="2"><input type="text" name="email" id="email"  /></td>

                </tr>
 
                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Item for Sale</td>

                  <td colspan="2">Description: <br /><input name="Sale Item" type="text" value="" /></td>
 
                </tr>

                <tr>

        <td colspan="1">Price</td>

                  <td colspan="2"><input name="amount" type="text" value="" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="1">Today's Date (M/D/Y) </td>

                  <td colspan="2"><input name="date" type="text"  /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="3" align="center"><input type="button" name="Submit" value="Submit" onclick="validation(this.form)" /></td>

                </tr>

                <tr>

                  <td colspan="3" align="center" onclick="javascript:document.forms.myForm.reset()"><input type="button" name="clear" value="Reset" /></td>

                </tr>

               </table>

      </form>

</body>

</html>

Nov 7 '06 #12

DougB

iam_clint...

many thanks, works like a charm. I also see my original mistake in not calling it from an id too...thanks again! Also note to Aric many thanks as well...
Cheers Guys!

DougB

Nov 7 '06 #13

AricC

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Expert 1GB

Glad you finally got it remember most languages are Case Sensitive

Nov 8 '06 #14

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