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Ok I have a form validation problem that I need one of you javascript ninja s to help me with.
The following is a form with the javascript that I have used for the last year or two to validate. It works quite nicely and I like the way it works. The problem is I am working on a site where the html needs to validate using STRICT. This form doesn't validate with STRICT because I use a name on the form and not and id. Could someone show me how to do this so that my page will validate using STRICT. I assume you change the name to id on the form, but then I can't then get the javascript to work right.
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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title>Form</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<script type="text/javascript">
function hasValue(theElement) {
if (theElement.value == "") {
theElement.style.background = "#ffcccc";
return false;
}
return true;
}
function is_phone(target) {
target.value = trim(target.value);
var filter = RegExp("^[1-9]{1}[0-9]{2}\-[0-9]{3}\-[0-9]{4}$");
if(filter.test(target.value))//test is used to search for a match of a regular expression in a string
return true;
target.style.background = "#ffcccc";
return false;
}
function is_email(target) {
target.value = trim(target.value);
var filter = RegExp("^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$");
if(filter.test(target.value))//test is used to search for a match of a regular expression in a string
return true;
target.style.background = "#ffcccc";
return false;
}
function trim(strText) {
//this will get rid of leading spaces
while (strText.substring(0,1) == ' ')
strText = strText.substring(1, strText.length);
//this will get rid of trailing spaces
while (strText.substring(strText.length-1,strText.length) == ' ')
strText = strText.substring(0, strText.length-1);
return strText;
}
function writeError(theError) {
var id = "error";
var x;
if(document.getElementById) {
x = document.getElementById(id);
x.innerHTML = "";
x.innerHTML = theError;
} else if (document.all) {
x = document.all[id];
x.innerHTML = theError;
}
}
function formCheck() {
var noError = true;
var theform = document.Form;
var theError = "";
var len = theform.length;
for (var n=0; n < len; n++) {
if ((theform[n].type == "text"))
theform[n].style.background = "white";
}
if (!hasValue(theform.fname))
noError = false;
if (!hasValue(theform.phone) ||!is_phone(theform.phone))
noError = false;
if (!hasValue(theform.email) || !is_email(theform.email))
noError = false;
if (!noError) {
if (theError)
writeError(theError);
else
writeError("*Please fill in all required fields.");
}
return noError;
}
</script>
</head>
<body >
<!--Start root -->
<div >
<?php
if(isset($_POST["form"])) {
$fname = htmlspecialchars($_POST["fname"]);
$phone = htmlspecialchars($_POST["phone"]);
$email = htmlspecialchars($_POST["email"]);
?>
<div>
<fieldset >
<legend>Model Call Sign Up</legend>
<p>*Form validates</p>
<p><span>First Name:</span><?php echo $fname; ?></p>
<p><span>Phone:</span><?php echo $phone; ?>
</p>
<p><span>Email:</span><?php echo $email; ?></p>
</fieldset>
</div>
<?php
} else {
?>
<div>
<form name="Form" action="" method="post" enctype="25" >
<fieldset>
<legend>Model Call Sign Up</legend>
<div id="error"></div>
<p><label for="fname">First Name:</label><input type="text" id="fname" name="fname" value="" /></p>
<p><label for="phone">Phone:</label><input type="text" id="phone" name="phone" value="" /></p>
<p><label for="email">Email:</label><input type="text" id="email" name="email" value="" /></p>
<p id="button">
<input type="submit" name="form" value="Sign Up" onclick="if (formCheck() == false) return false;" />
<input type="reset" />
</p>
</fieldset>
</form>
</div>
<?php
}
?>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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Thanks for the help.
