I have created a validation to check whether there is any value entered in BirthDate or not and if there isn't any then it will show a message to enter date of Birth.
But it's neither working nor the alert message shows.
var BirthDate=document.getElementById("dob").value;
if(dob =! ""){
document.getElementById("dateerror").innerHTML="";
}
else{
document.getElementById("dateerror").innerHTML="**Enter date of Birth";
}
<label>BirthDate: </label>
<input type="date" id="dob">
<span id="dateerror"></span><br><br>
Please try this one:
var BirthDate=document.getElementById("dob").value;
if(BirthDate=! ""){
document.getElementById("dateerror").innerHTML="";
}
else{
document.getElementById("dateerror").innerHTML="**Enter date of Birth";
}
Looks like not referring correct variable (referring dob instead of BirthDate).
Also this is another of your faulty lines :
if(dob =! ""){
It is a syntax error and should be :
var BirthDate=document.getElementById("dob").value;
if (BirthDate != "")
{
document.getElementById("dateerror").innerHTML="";
}
else
{
document.getElementById("dateerror").innerHTML="**Enter date of
Birth";
}
I am trying to validate a form I have for age validating using javascript but it doesn't seem to be working.. not sure why.
Basically the date of birth is entered : dd/mm/yyyy and I need to make sure that in order to submit the form the age of the person is between 15 - 80.. I have tried validating this way but doesn't seem to work.
Html
<label>
Date of birth:
<input type="text" name="birth date" id="DOB"
placeholder="dd/mm/yyyy" maxlength="10" pattern="\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{4}"
required="required"/>
</label>
Javascript
var birthDate = document.getElementById("DOB").value;
if (2019 - birthDate < 15 || 2019 - birthDate > 80) {
errMsg =errMsg + "your age must be between 15 and 80\n";
result = false;
}
if (errMsg !== "") {
alert(errMsg);
}
return result;
So, based on your comment, you have a text box as such:
<form>
<input type="text" name="birth date" id="DOB" placeholder="dd/mm/yyyy" maxlength="10" pattern="\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{4}" required="required"/></label>
</form>
Therefore, document.getElementById("DOB").value; will be of the format dd/mm/yyyy.
So, if you are just checking the year, this should do the trick:
onload = function() {
var form = document.getElementById("form"); //assuming this is your form's ID
form.onsubmit = validate;
}
function checkAge() {
var currentYear = new Date().getFullYear();
var birthDate = document.getElementById("DOB").value;
var errMsg = ""; //this line was missing from my code, and preventing it from working.
//turning "dd/mm/yyyy" into an array of the form { "dd", "mm", "yyyy" }, and taking the "yyyy" part
var birthYear = birthDate.split("/")[2];
var age = currentYear - birthYear;
if (age < 15 || age > 80) {
errMsg =errMsg + "your age must be between 15 and 80\n";
result = false;
}
if (errMsg !== "") {
alert(errMsg);
return false; //form won't submit
}
return true; //form will submit
}
As you can see, I also used getFullYear() so that we don't hard code a fixed current year.
But it would probably be cleaner if you use an <input type="date"> element rather than a text box.
document.getElementById("DOB").value is a string, not a date, so you need to convert it. For that there are different methods; one is to convert the string to YYYY-MM-DD format and pass that to the Date constructor.
Moreover, someone's age changes on their birthday, not at the change of a calendar year, so you need a different logic to get their age. One way is to precalculate the date of 15 years ago and of 81 years ago, and test that the entered birthdate lies between these two extremes.
var DOB = document.getElementById("DOB");
var output = document.getElementById("output");
var go = document.getElementById("go");
var fifteenYearsAgo = new Date();
fifteenYearsAgo.setFullYear(fifteenYearsAgo.getFullYear() - 15);
var eightyOneYearsAgo = new Date();
eightyOneYearsAgo.setFullYear(eightyOneYearsAgo.getFullYear() - 81);
// Function returns true when age is OK, false otherwise
function check() {
var birthDate = new Date(DOB.value.replace(/(..)\/(..)\/(....)/, "$3-$2-$1"));
return birthDate <= fifteenYearsAgo && birthDate > eightyOneYearsAgo;
}
go.addEventListener("click", function() {
if (check()) {
output.textContent = "Your age is OK";
} else {
output.textContent = "Your age must be between 15 and 80";
}
});
Birthdate: <input id="DOB"><button id="go">Go</button>
<div id="output"></div>
HTML5
If you are certain about your clients having HTML5 support, then use type="date" for your input element, and dynamically set the min and max attributes of a date typed input element and rely on form validation. If the form gets into the submit handler, you can be sure the validations passed:
var DOB = document.getElementById("DOB");
var form = document.querySelector("form");
var fifteenYearsAgo = new Date();
fifteenYearsAgo.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
fifteenYearsAgo.setFullYear(fifteenYearsAgo.getFullYear() - 15);
var eightyOneYearsAgo = new Date();
eightyOneYearsAgo.setHours(0, 0, 0, 0);
eightyOneYearsAgo.setFullYear(eightyOneYearsAgo.getFullYear() - 81);
// Border case: in leap years next condition could be false
if ((new Date()).getDate() === eightyOneYearsAgo.getDate()) {
eightyOneYearsAgo.setDate(eightyOneYearsAgo.getDate()+1);
}
DOB.setAttribute("min", eightyOneYearsAgo.toLocaleString("se").slice(0,10));
DOB.setAttribute("max", fifteenYearsAgo.toLocaleString("se").slice(0,10));
form.addEventListener("submit", function(e) {
alert("Your age is OK");
e.preventDefault();
return false;
});
function validationMessage() {
DOB.setCustomValidity("");
const msg = DOB.checkValidity() ? ""
: DOB.validity.valueMissing ? "This field is required"
: DOB.validity.rangeOverflow ? "You must be at least 15"
: DOB.validity.rangeUnderflow ? "You must be at most 80"
: "Enter a valid date"
DOB.setCustomValidity(msg);
}
DOB.addEventListener("input", validationMessage);
validationMessage();
<form>
<label>
Date of birth:
<input type="date" name="birth date" id="DOB" required="required"/>
</label>
<button id="go">Go</button>
</form>
document.getElementById("DOB").value; will give you something like 10/10/2000 and performing arithmetic operations on this string will result in NaN. That must be causing an issue.
Validating date is a more complex than you imagine. There are a lot of things that you need to consider. Use libraries like moment to help you in validating dates.
Edit: Use moment's Difference method to calculate the age.
You can use built in min and max props for input. Try something like this.
<p>Enter a number and click OK:</p>
<input id="id1" type="number" min="15" max="80" required>
<button onclick="myFunction()">OK</button>
<p>If the age is less than 15 or greater than 80, an error message will be
displayed.</p>
<p id="demo"></p>
<script>
function myFunction() {
var inpObj = document.getElementById("id1");
if (!inpObj.checkValidity()) {
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = inpObj.validationMessage;
} else {
document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = "Input OK";
}
}
</script>
Theoretically this should work.
Since you are using pattern and required I assume that you want the error message (if the age is out of range) to be shown to the user in the same way as if the entered date is in the wrong format or is missing. That can be achieved with setCustomValidity.
If you add an event listener of the input event on the DOB-element, you can run a function that checks if the entered age is in rage. It will set the custom error message if the age is out of range, or if the entered date is invalid. Otherwise it let the browser handle the error (if it is missing or of wrong pattern).
function validateDOB(event) {
const minAge = 15, maxAge = 80;
// No custom error message. The broswer will complain if the input isn't in the
// correct form, or if the value is missing since the element has "pattern" and
// and "required".
this.setCustomValidity('');
// Check if there are any other errors
if ( !this.validity.valid ) return;
// Check format of input, and split it into parts
const dobArrayText = this.value.trim().match(/^(\d{1,2})\/(\d{1,2})\/(\d{4})$/);
// dobArrayText is null if not in correct format. Let the broswer handle the error.
if (!dobArrayText) return;
// Decode dobArrayText to numeric values that can be used by the Date constructor.
const dob = {
year : +dobArrayText[3],
month : (+dobArrayText[2]) - 1, // month is zero based in date object.
day : +dobArrayText[1]
}
const dobDate = new Date( dob.year, dob.month, dob.day );
// Check validity of date. The date object will accept 2000-99-99 as input and
// adjust the date to 2008-07-08. To prevent that, and make sure the entered
// dobDate is a valid date, I check if the entered date is the same as the parsed date.
if (
!dobDate
|| dob.year !== dobDate.getFullYear()
|| dob.month !== dobDate.getMonth()
|| dob.day != dobDate.getDate()
) {
this.setCustomValidity('Invalid date');
return;
}
// Calc minAgeDate and maxAgeDate
const minAgeDate = new Date(dob.year + minAge, dob.month, dob.day);
const maxAgeDate = new Date(dob.year + maxAge, dob.month, dob.day);
// Get todays date and set Hours, Minutes, Seconds and Milliseconds to 0.
const todayTimestamp = new Date().setHours(0,0,0,0);
// Check validity and set a custom error message if needed.
if ( todayTimestamp < minAgeDate ) {
this.setCustomValidity(`Sorry, you must be older than ${minAge} years old`);
}
else if ( todayTimestamp >= maxAgeDate ) {
this.setCustomValidity(`Sorry, you must be younger than ${maxAge} years old`);
}
}
function formInit() {
document.getElementById('DOB').addEventListener("input", validateDOB);
}
window.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', formInit);
<form id="myForm">
<label>
Date of birth:
<input type="text" name="birth_date" id="DOB"
placeholder="dd/mm/yyyy" maxlength="10" pattern="\d{1,2}\/\d{1,2}\/\d{4}"
required="required"/>
</label>
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>
So, I am writing a piece of code which checks the month of a number after it has been entered into a textbox, it checks to see if it is a valid number of a month (1-12) and if it is not displays an error message. I get the basic principle of it but i dont get how to run the checking after pressing the button, if you want to help that would be great ! And try and base it om what i already have :p
http://imgur.com/PFjAonf
function myFunction(){
number = document.getElementById('myText').value;
if(isNaN(number)){
alert('Not a valid month');
}else {
if( number > 0 && number <= 12){
alert('valid month');
}else{
alert('Not a valid month');
}
}
}
Month no: <input type="text" id="myText" />
<button onclick="myFunction();">Go</button>
The original, more complete way is:
function myFunction() {
var month = parseInt(document.getElementById('myText').value);
if (typeof month === 'number' && month <= 12 && month > 0) {
alert('yes! valid month! ');
} else {
alert('invalid month! ');
}
}
document.getElementById('myText').value should be a string, and parseInt() convert it to a number.
Update: Use the complete solution, or may cause lots of problems.
However, If you don't want to make it too complicate, just use below code.
function myFunction() {
var month = document.getElementById('myText').value;
if (month <= 12 && month > 0) {
alert('yes! valid month! ');
} else {
alert('invalid month! ');
}
}
<html>
<body>
<title>Month Checker 3000</title>
<h1>Month Checker</h1>
Month Number:
<input type="text" id="myText" />
<button onclick="myFunction()">Go</button>
</body>
</html>
I'm using Moment.js to validate age is over 18 years old.
My code:
function validate(date){
var eighteenYearsAgo = moment().subtract("years", 18);
var birthday = moment(date);
if (!birthday.isValid()) {
return "invalid date";
}
else if (eighteenYearsAgo.isAfter(birthday)) {
return "okay, you're good";
}
else {
return "sorry, no";
}
}
I got a input
<input type="text" name"SocialSecurityNumber">
How can i attach this script to the input so it validates age, everytime somone leaves the input field? (blur)
<input type="text" name="SocialSecurityNumber" onblur="return validate(this.value);" />
Personally, I use jquery validator and made this method:
$.validator.addMethod("minage", function(value,element,argument){
var age = moment(value);
var now = moment();
return this.optional(element) || now.diff(age,'years') >= argument;
}, $.format("Applicant must be at least {0} years old."));
I am new to Javascript programming and I am trying to validate a date entered into an <input> from a calender snippet which is obtained from an external Javascript file. I am trying to validate the date to check if the user entered a past date. If the entered date is a past date, then I need to print a warning message to enter a valid date in future period.
I accept input date field in following HTML code:
<input size="12" id="inputField" name="inputField" autofocus="" type="date" oninput="return dateValidate(inputField)"/>
My Javascript function to validate input date is:
<script type="text/javascript">
function dateValidate(inputField)
{
var v2 = document.getElementById('inputField');
var pickeddate = new Date(v2.Value);
todayDate = new Date();
if(pickeddate > todayDate){
return true;
} else {
alert("Enter a valid Date");
}
}
But this code doesn't seem to be working. I want this Javascript function to be run when I enter a past date in the <input> field and tab out. I want to validate date when it is entered in the field, not when the form is submitted.
It is not working since there is a issue in your code, just replace this:
var pickeddate = new Date(v2.Value);
with this:
var pickeddate = new Date(v2.value); // 'value' should be in lower case
Since, it was not correct, the pickeddate was always undefined and code didn't worked.
You may try this
HTML
<input size="12" id="inputField" name="inputField" autofocus="" type="date" onblur="return dateValidate(this)"/>
JS
function dateValidate(inputField)
{
var pickeddate = new Date(inputField.value);
var todayDate = new Date();
if( pickeddate > todayDate )
{
return true;
}
else
{
alert("Enter a valid Date");
}
}
DEMO.