Individual error messages for empty form fields using JavaScript - javascript

I need to validate my form using JavaScript because iPhone / Safari do not recognize the required attribute. I want individual error messages to appear below each empty input field.
My code works, but the individual error message does not disappear when the field is filled in. Also, I would like all messages to appear initially, for all empty fields (not one by one). I am very very new to JavaScript, sorry.
My HTML:
<form onsubmit="return validateForm()" method="post" action="form.php" name="english_registration_form" id="english_registration_form">
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" aria-describedby="name-format" required placeholder="Name">
<span class="error"><p id="name_error"></p></span>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" required placeholder="Email">
<span class="error"><p id="email_error"></p></span>
<input type="tel" id="telephone" name="telephone" required placeholder="Telephone">
<span class="error"><p id="telephone_error"></p></span>
<button class="register_button" type="submit" value="submit">Register Now</button>
</form>
And my JavaScript:
<script>
function validateForm() {
var x = document.forms["english_registration_form"]["name"].value;
var y = document.forms["english_registration_form"]["email"].value;
var z = document.forms["english_registration_form"]["telephone"].value;
if (x == null || x == "") {
nameError = "Please enter your name";
document.getElementById("name_error").innerHTML = nameError;
return false;
}
else if (y == null || y == "") {
emailError = "Please enter your email";
document.getElementById("email_error").innerHTML = emailError;
return false;
}
else if (z == null || z == "") {
telephoneError = "Please enter your telephone";
document.getElementById("telephone_error").innerHTML = telephoneError;
return false;
}
else {return true;}
}
</script>
Thanks for your help.

Here is a solution that displays all relevant errors when the form is first submitted, and removes an error when the user modifies text in the relevant input element.
To get it to display all of the errors on first run, I used if statements instead of if else, and used a flag to determine whether the form should be submitted. To remove the warnings when the input is modified, I bound the onkeyup events of the inputs.
I ended up removing the required attributes on the inputs so that the demonstration will work in a modern browser that supports them.
Live Demo:
document.getElementById("english_registration_form").onsubmit = function () {
var x = document.forms["english_registration_form"]["name"].value;
var y = document.forms["english_registration_form"]["email"].value;
var z = document.forms["english_registration_form"]["telephone"].value;
var submit = true;
if (x == null || x == "") {
nameError = "Please enter your name";
document.getElementById("name_error").innerHTML = nameError;
submit = false;
}
if (y == null || y == "") {
emailError = "Please enter your email";
document.getElementById("email_error").innerHTML = emailError;
submit = false;
}
if (z == null || z == "") {
telephoneError = "Please enter your telephone";
document.getElementById("telephone_error").innerHTML = telephoneError;
submit = false;
}
return submit;
}
function removeWarning() {
document.getElementById(this.id + "_error").innerHTML = "";
}
document.getElementById("name").onkeyup = removeWarning;
document.getElementById("email").onkeyup = removeWarning;
document.getElementById("telephone").onkeyup = removeWarning;
<form method="post" action="form.php" name="english_registration_form" id="english_registration_form">
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" aria-describedby="name-format" placeholder="Name"> <span class="error"><p id="name_error"></p></span>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" placeholder="Email"> <span class="error"><p id="email_error"></p></span>
<input type="tel" id="telephone" name="telephone" placeholder="Telephone"> <span class="error"><p id="telephone_error"></p></span>
<button class="register_button" type="submit" value="submit">Register Now</button>
</form>
JSFiddle Version: https://jsfiddle.net/xga2shec/

First of all, we change your function validateForm so it can handle multiple validations.
Then, we create a DOMContentLoaded event handler on the document, and we call the validateForm function, so we validate the field when the page is loaded.
And to finish, we create input event handlers on the inputs, so everytime someone change any data inside them, the form is validated again.
Take a look at the code commented, and see the working version in action!
function validateForm() {
var valid = true; // creates a boolean variable to return if the form's valid
if (!validateField(this, 'name')) // validates the name
valid = false;
if (!validateField(this, 'email')) // validates the email (look that we're not using else if)
valid = false;
if (!validateField(this, 'telephone')) // validates the telephone
valid = false;
return valid; // if all the fields are valid, this variable will be true
}
function validateField(context, fieldName) { // function to dynamically validates a field by its name
var field = document.forms['english_registration_form'][fieldName], // gets the field
msg = 'Please enter your ' + fieldName, // dynamic message
errorField = document.getElementById(fieldName + '_error'); // gets the error field
console.log(context);
// if the context is the form, it's because the Register Now button was clicked, if not, check the caller
if (context instanceof HTMLFormElement || context.id === fieldName)
errorField.innerHTML = (field.value === '') ? msg : '';
return field.value !== ''; // return if the field is fulfilled
}
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() { // when the DOM is ready
// add event handlers when changing the fields' value
document.getElementById('name').addEventListener('input', validateForm);
document.getElementById('email').addEventListener('input', validateForm);
document.getElementById('telephone').addEventListener('input', validateForm);
// add the event handler for the submit event
document.getElementById('english_registration_form').addEventListener('submit', validateForm);
});
<form method="post" action="form.php" name="english_registration_form" id="english_registration_form">
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" aria-describedby="name-format" required placeholder="Name">
<span class="error"><p id="name_error"></p></span>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" required placeholder="Email">
<span class="error"><p id="email_error"></p></span>
<input type="tel" id="telephone" name="telephone" required placeholder="Telephone">
<span class="error"><p id="telephone_error"></p></span>
<button class="register_button" type="submit" value="submit">Register Now</button>
</form>

you have to use style.display="none" to hide error
and style.display="block" to show error
<script>
function validateForm() {
var x = document.forms["english_registration_form"]["name"].value;
var y = document.forms["english_registration_form"]["email"].value;
var z = document.forms["english_registration_form"]["telephone"].value;
if (x == null || x == "") {
nameError = "Please enter your name";
document.getElementById("name_error").style.display="block";
document.getElementById("name_error").innerHTML = nameError;
return false;
}
else if (x != null || x != "") {
nameError = "Please enter your name";
document.getElementById("name_error").style.display="none";
return false;
}
if (y == null || y == "") {
emailError = "Please enter your email";
document.getElementById("email_error").style.display="block";
document.getElementById("email_error").innerHTML = emailError;
return false;
}
else if (y != null || y != "") {
emailError = "Please enter your email";
document.getElementById("email_error").style.display="none";
return false;
}
if (z == null || z == "") {
telephoneError = "Please enter your telephone";
document.getElementById("telephone_error").style.display="block";
document.getElementById("telephone_error").innerHTML = telephoneError;
return false;
}
else if (z != null || z != "") {
telephoneError = "Please enter your telephone";
document.getElementById("telephone_error").style.display="none";
return false;
}
else {return true;}
}
</script>

function validateForm() {
var valid = true; // creates a boolean variable to return if the form's valid
if (!validateField(this, 'name')) // validates the name
valid = false;
if (!validateField(this, 'email')) // validates the email (look that we're not using else if)
valid = false;
if (!validateField(this, 'telephone')) // validates the telephone
valid = false;
return valid; // if all the fields are valid, this variable will be true
}
function validateField(context, fieldName) { // function to dynamically validates a field by its name
var field = document.forms['english_registration_form'][fieldName], // gets the field
msg = 'Please enter your ' + fieldName, // dynamic message
errorField = document.getElementById(fieldName + '_error'); // gets the error field
console.log(context);
// if the context is the form, it's because the Register Now button was clicked, if not, check the caller
if (context instanceof HTMLFormElement || context.id === fieldName)
errorField.innerHTML = (field.value === '') ? msg : '';
return field.value !== ''; // return if the field is fulfilled
}
document.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() { // when the DOM is ready
// add event handlers when changing the fields' value
document.getElementById('name').addEventListener('input', validateForm);
document.getElementById('email').addEventListener('input', validateForm);
document.getElementById('telephone').addEventListener('input', validateForm);
// add the event handler for the submit event
document.getElementById('english_registration_form').addEventListener('submit', validateForm);
});
<form method="post" action="form.php" name="english_registration_form" id="english_registration_form">
<input type="text" id="name" name="name" aria-describedby="name-format" required placeholder="Name">
<span class="error"><p id="name_error"></p></span>
<input type="email" id="email" name="email" required placeholder="Email">
<span class="error"><p id="email_error"></p></span>
<input type="tel" id="telephone" name="telephone" required placeholder="Telephone">
<span class="error"><p id="telephone_error"></p></span>
<button class="register_button" type="submit" value="submit">Register Now</button>
</form>

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Form Validation: messages not displaying when all input fields are left empty

So I am practicing Javascript and right now I am trying to implement form validation.
One of the issues I am having is that when I click on the button when all of the input fields are empty, the first one (Full Name) only highlights and displays a message (Please checkout snippet). I was wondering is that how it works - can only one message be displayed at a time or is there a way to get all of the input fields to change color and display messages for each empty field?
function validateForm(e) {
const eName = document.getElementById("FullName");
const eMail = document.getElementById("Email");
const ePhone = document.getElementById("PhoneNumber");
const ePass = document.getElementById("Password");
const eCnfmPass = document.getElementById("ConfirmPassword");
const phoneno = /^\(?([0-9]{3})\)?[-. ]?([0-9]{3})[-. ]?([0-9]{4})$/;
const fullNameText = "Oops, please fill out your name";
const emailText = "Please enter a valid email";
const phoneText = "Please enter a valid phone number";
const passText = "Please enter a valid password";
const confirmText = "Please confirm your password";
//Name input validation - If input is left empty
if (eName.value === "") {
e.preventDefault();
document.getElementById("FullName").style.borderColor = "red";
document.getElementById("FullNameLabel").innerHTML = fullNameText;
document.getElementById("FullNameLabel").style.color = "red";
return false;
}
//Email input validation - If input is left empty
if (eMail.value === "") {
e.preventDefault();
document.getElementById("Email").style.borderColor = "red";
document.getElementById("EmailLabel").innerHTML = emailText;
document.getElementById("EmailLabel").style.color = "red";
return false;
}
//Phone number input validation - If input is left empty
if (ePhone.value === "") {
e.preventDefault();
document.getElementById("PhoneNumber").style.borderColor = "red";
document.getElementById("PhoneNumberLabel").innerHTML = phoneText;
document.getElementById("PhoneNumberLabel").style.color = "red";
return false;
}
//Phone number input validation - checks to see if there is a missing number or character that is not a number
if (ePhone.value.match(phoneno)) {
return true;
} else {
alert("Please check your phone number and enter it again")
// document.getElementById("PhoneNumber").style.borderColor = "red";
// document.getElementById("PhoneNumberLabel").innerHTML = phoneText;
// document.getElementById("PhoneNumberLabel").style.color = "red";
return false;
}
//Password input validation - If input is left empty
if (ePass.value === "") {
e.preventDefault();
document.getElementById("Password").style.borderColor = "red";
document.getElementById("PasswordLabel").innerHTML = passText;
document.getElementById("PasswordLabel").style.color = "red";
return false;
}
//Confirm password input validation - If input is left empty
if (eCnfmPass.value === "") {
e.preventDefault();
document.getElementById("ConfirmPassword").style.borderColor = "red";
document.getElementById("ConfirmPswdLabel").innerHTML = confirmText;
document.getElementById("ConfirmPswdLabel").style.color = "red";
}
}
//Checks to make sure that both password and confirm passwords match
var passConfirm = function() {
if (document.getElementById("Password").value ==
document.getElementById("ConfirmPassword").value) {
document.getElementById("Message").style.color = "green";
document.getElementById("Message").style.fontWeight = "Heavy";
document.getElementById("Message").innerHTML = "Passwords match!"
} else {
document.getElementById("Message").style.color = "red";
document.getElementById("Message").style.fontWeight = "Heavy";
document.getElementById("Message").innerHTML = "Passwords do NOT match!"
}
}
<div class="container">
<form class="form" onsubmit="validateForm(event)">
<div>
<label id="FullNameLabel">Full Name</label></br>
<input type="text" placeholder="John Doe" id="FullName" />
</div>
<div>
<label id="EmailLabel">Email</label></br>
<input type="text" placeholder="johndoe#email.com" id="Email" />
</div>
<div>
<label id="PhoneNumberLabel">Phone Number</label></br>
<input type="text" placeholder="(123) 456-7890" id="PhoneNumber" />
</div>
<div>
<label id="PasswordLabel">Password</label></br>
<input name="Password" id="Password" type="Password" placeholder="Password" onkeyup='passConfirm();' />
</div>
<div>
<label id="ConfirmPswdLabel">Confirm Password</label></br>
<input name="ConfirmPassword" id="ConfirmPassword" type="Password" placeholder="Confirm Password" onkeyup='passConfirm();' />
</div>
<span id="Message"></span>
<button type="submit" value="submit">Sign Me Up!</button>
</form>
</div>
You have too much javascript code, you can simplify that, alot.
to check if any of the inputs are empty, you can first store all the inputs in a variable like that:
let inputs = document.querySelectorAll('.form input') //This will make a Nodelist array of all the inputs inside the form.
let labels = document.querySelectorAll('.form label') //This will make a Nodelist array of the label tags inside the form
after that you can loop through the inputs array to find if any of the inputs are empty:
for (let i = 0; i < inputs.length; i++) {
if (inputs.value.length == 0) {
inputs[i].style.borderColor = 'red'
label[i].textContent = 'Please fill in this input'
}
}
Require your inputs. Why go through all that trouble making sure they're filled out?
<input required>

Not able to match patterns in HTML and JAVASCRIPT

Guys I coded this in html and js. It is just simple three inputs, NAME, EMAIL and PASSWORD. I validated this simple form in javascript but it is not working as expected. I wanted that if I give wrong input to any one of three inputs, it should alert me "Please enter valid credentials." and if I give right input to all of these, It should alert me "Congrats! your form submitted.".
The validation which I gave to NAME field is if length of name is less than 1, it should return false, else true. The validation which I gave to PASSWORD field is same as NAME field and you can see the validation which I gave to all field in my code below. When I give wrong input to only one field, it is still showing me "Congrats! your form submitted."
It is not working as expected!
function ValidateForm(username, email, password)
{
if ((validateusername(username) || validateemail(email) || validatepassword(password))==false)
{
alert("Please Enter Valid Credentials.")
return false
}
else if ((validateusername(username))==true && (validateemail(email))==true && (validatepassword(password))==true)
{
alert("Congrats! your form submitted.")
}
}
function validateemail(email)
{
var x = email.value;
var atposition = x.indexOf("#");
var dotposition = x.lastIndexOf(".");
if (atposition<1 || dotposition<atposition+2 || dotposition+2>=x.length)
{
return false;
}
else
{
return true
}
}
function validateusername(username)
{
if (username.length<1)
{
return false;
}
else
{
return true
}
}
function validatepassword(password)
{
if (password.length<1)
{
return false;
}
else
{
return true
}
}
<form name="myForm">
<input type="text" name="Name" placeholder="Enter Name">
<input type="text" name="EmailAddr" placeholder="Enter Email">
<input type="text" name="Password" placeholder="Enter Password">
<button type="submit" onclick="ValidateForm(document.myForm.Name, document.myForm.EmailAddr, document.myForm.Password)">Submit</button>
</form>
The problem is your if statement condition.
(validateusername(username) || validateemail(email) || validatepassword(password))==false
is the same as
!validateusername(username) && !validateemail(email) && !validatepassword(password)
so you're saying it should only be considered invalid if all 3 validations fail.
This function can be cleaned up and fixed at the same time:
function ValidateForm(username, email, password)
{
if (!validateusername(username) || !validateemail(email) || !validatepassword(password)) {
alert("Please Enter Valid Credentials.")
return false
}
else {
alert("Congrats! your form submitted.")
}
}
That's all you need. If any one of those fails, then the form fails. Otherwise (else) it's fine. You don't need to re-check again.
One improvement you can make is to take as few arguments as necessary without impeding clarity. This function is called "validate form" so I'd expect the form to be the argument, like this:
ValidateForm(document.myForm)
Which is easy to accommodate internally:
function ValidateForm(form)
{
if (!validateusername(form.username) || !validateemail(form.email) || !validatepassword(form.password)) {
alert("Please Enter Valid Credentials.")
return false
}
else {
alert("Congrats! your form submitted.")
}
}
Which requires renaming your form fields to be consistent:
<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Enter Name">
<input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Enter Email">
<input type="text" name="password" placeholder="Enter Password">
Tip: Try and have one and only one name for your things. Calling it variously Name or name is really counter-productive.
I would avoid inlining events.
Take a look.
document.myForm.addEventListener("submit", validateForm);
function validateForm(event) {
event.preventDefault();
const {
Name: username,
EmailAddr: email,
Password: password,
} = document.myForm;
if (!validateUsername(username) ||
!validateEmail(email) ||
!validatePassword(password)) {
console.log("Please Enter Valid Credentials.")
return;
}
console.log("Congrats! your form submitted.");
}
function validateEmail(emailField) {
const x = emailField.value;
const atposition = x.indexOf("#");
const dotposition = x.lastIndexOf(".");
if (atposition < 1 ||
dotposition < atposition + 2 ||
dotposition + 2 >= x.length) {
return false;
}
return true
}
function validateUsername(username) {
if (username.length < 1) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
function validatePassword(password) {
if (password.length < 1) {
return false;
}
return true;
}
<form name="myForm">
<input type="text" name="Name" placeholder="Enter Name">
<input type="text" name="EmailAddr" placeholder="Enter Email">
<input type="text" name="Password" placeholder="Enter Password">
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

Text obtained with innerHTML dissapear

I have the following code:
function passVerif() {
if (document.forms['form'].pass.value === "") {
messagePV.innerHTML = ("Password field is empty!")
//alert("Password field is empty!");
return false;
}
return true;
}
function emailVerif() {
if (document.forms['form'].email.value === "") {
messageEV.innerHTML = ("Email field is empty!")
//alert("Email field is empty!");
return false;
}
return true;
}
function validate() {
var email = document.getElementById("input").value;
var emailFilter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.-])+#(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
if (!emailFilter.test(email)) {
messageV.innerHTML = ("Please enter a valid e-mail address!")
//alert('Please enter a valid e-mail address!');
return false;
}
}
<div>
<form name="form"> Login<br>
<input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Enter email here" id="input" class="input">Email address<br>
<input type="password" name="pass" placeholder="Enter password here" class="input">Password<br>
<input type="button" name="required" onclick="return passVerif(), emailVerif(), validate()">
</form>
</div>
<div id="messagePV"></div>
<div id="messageEV"></div>
<div id="messageV"></div>
As you can see, input type is submit. Because of that (page is refreshing after click on button) the text I want to show disappears after refresh.
As I read on other posts, the simple change from submit to button will do the dew.
But I am suspecting that I messed up the return false and return true instructions in all of my functions.
Is this correct? If they are in a logical way I can avoid the page refresh and continue to use submit? At least until all conditions are met and the form is good to go.
In other words, can someone help me to put return false and true in such way that the page will refresh only if all conditions are met.
Thanks a lot, I am not even a noob.
Codes are copied from different sources on the internet. I am at the very beginning of coding road. Please have mercy :)
I would change it to one validation function and have a bool that is returned based on if it has errored or not:
// Just have one validation function
function validate() {
var errorMessage = ''; // build up an error message
var email = document.forms['form'].email.value;
var emailFilter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.-])+#(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
if (email === "") {
errorMessage += "Email field is empty!<br>";
} else if (!emailFilter.test(email)) { // this can be else if
errorMessage += "Please enter a valid e-mail address!<br>";
}
if (document.forms['form'].pass.value === "") {
errorMessage += "Password field is empty!<br>"
}
if (errorMessage === '') {
return true; // return true as no error message
} else {
document.getElementById('error-message').innerHTML = errorMessage; // show error message and return false
return false;
}
}
<div>
<form name="form"> Login<br>
<input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Enter email here" id="input" class="input">Email address<br>
<input type="password" name="pass" placeholder="Enter password here" class="input">Password<br>
<input type="submit" name="required" onclick="return validate();">
</form>
</div>
<div id="error-message">
<!-- CAN HAVE ONE ERROR MESSAGE DIV -->
</div>
I tried with your code and I could find the the messages were not getting updated based on the conditions. So I did few modifications to your code to display the message based on which condition fails.
HTML
<div>
<form name="form"> Login<br>
<input type="text" name="email" placeholder="Enter email here" id="input" class="input">Email address<br><br>
<input type="password" name="pass" placeholder="Enter password here" class="input">Password<br><br>
<input type="submit" name="required" value="Submit" onclick="return passVerif(), emailVerif(), validate()">
</form>
</div>
<div id="messagePV"></div>
<div id="messageEV"></div>
<div id="messageV"></div>
JS
function passVerif() {
messagePV.innerHTML = ("")
if(document.forms['form'].pass.value === "") {
messagePV.innerHTML = ("Password field is empty!")
//alert("Password field is empty!");
return false;
}
return true;
}
function emailVerif() {
messageEV.innerHTML = ("")
if(document.forms['form'].email.value === "") {
messageEV.innerHTML = ("Email field is empty!")
//alert("Email field is empty!");
return false;
}
return true;
}
function validate() {
messageV.innerHTML = ("")
var email = document.getElementById("input").value;
var emailFilter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.-])+#(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
if (!emailFilter.test(email)) {
messageV.innerHTML = ("Please enter a valid e-mail address!")
//alert('Please enter a valid e-mail address!');
return false;
}
}
By initializing the errormessage filed to empty sting u can maintain the fresh set of error messages.
Jsfiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/85w7qaqx/1/
Hope this helps out.

JavaScript Validation error message is not disappearing after I click submit

The code below validates a form with two fields. When I click the submit button without any data the error messages would show which is working fine but if I input data after and click submit button the error message doesn't disappear.
<script>
function validateForm() {
var valid = true;
var x = document.forms["myForm"]["activityName"].value;
if (x == "" || x == null) {
document.getElementById("activityName").innerHTML = "Please Enter Activity Name";
valid= false;
}
var r = document.forms["myForm"]["reporter"].value;
if (r == "") {
document.getElementById("reporter").innerHTML = "Please Enter Reporter";
valid = false;
}
return valid;
}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="#" method="post" name="myForm" onsubmit=" return validateForm()">
<div>
<label for="myActivityName">*Activity Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="activityName" value="" placeholder="Enter Activity Name" />
<p id="activityName"></p>
</div><br>
<div>
<label for="reporter">*Reporter:</label>
<input type="text" name="reporter" value="" placeholder="Enter Reporter " />
<p id="reporter"></p>
</div><br>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" >
</form>
</body>
The other answer is right, but here is some code to back it up with. Notice that the innerHTML of both activityName and reporter get (re)set back to empty before the validation occurs:
function validateForm() {
var valid = true;
document.getElementById("activityName").innerHTML = "";
document.getElementById("reporter").innerHTML = "";
var x = document.forms["myForm"]["activityName"].value;
if (x == "" || x == null) {
document.getElementById("activityName").innerHTML = "Please Enter Activity Name";
valid= false;
}
var r = document.forms["myForm"]["reporter"].value;
if (r == "") {
document.getElementById("reporter").innerHTML = "Please Enter Reporter";
valid = false;
}
return valid;
}
Your problem is you never "unvalidate" the form a.k.a. remove the previous validation errors. Before you return from validation, if there were no errors, just revert your validation checks. This will ensure it will "clean" your interface if nothing is wrong.

Validating a form in Javascript not working

I'm trying to validate a form using JavaScript, but the code doesn't seem to execute. The Form is being processed using php which is working just fine. But, the validation is not working. Can someone please help me with this.
<script>
function validateForm(){
var x = document.getElementById('name');
var email = document.getElementById('email');
var num = document.getElementById('number');
var size = document.getElementById('size');
var filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\#(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
var atpos=email.value.indexOf("#");
var dotpos=email.value.lastIndexOf(".");
if (x.value == null || x.value == "") {
alert("Please Enter your name");
x.foucs;
x.style.background = 'Yellow';
return false;
}
if(!filter.test(email.value){
alert('Please provide a valid email address');
email.focus;
email.value="";
return false;
}
if(num.value == null && num.value == ""){
alert('Please enter your mobile number');
num.focus();
}
if(!isNan(num.value){
alert('Please enter a valid number');
num.focus();
num.style.background();
return false;
}
return false;
}
</script>
And here is my html code.
<form method="post" name="myForm " onsubmit="return validateForm()" action="myprocessingscript.php" >
<input type="text" name="name" placeholder="Name" class="text" id="name" />
<input name="email" placeholder="Email" type="text" class="text" id="email"/>
<input name="number" placeholder="Mobile Number" type="text" class="text" id="number"/>
<input name="size" placeholder="Size" type="text" class="text" id="size" />
<input type="Submit" value="Submit" class="button">
Working fiddle
Correct the spelling of foucs and ensure all references have parenthesis such as:
email.focus();
Without parenthesis, the function is not called. It's valid Javascript but it won't do anything.
You also missed a closing ) here:
if(!filter.test(email.value){
// ^ add another )
and here:
if(!isNan(num.value){
// ^ add another )
!isNan(....) should be isNaN(....). Javascript is case sensitive and you shouldn't be "notting" it here. isNaN is saying "is not a number" so it's already "notted".
On the line below, style has no background function. Looks like you want to assign a value here not call a function:
num.style.background(); // change to assign value.
On this line, change && to ||:
if(num.value == null && num.value == ""){
// ^ should be ||
Finally, remove the return false at the end.
Try using x.focus();
x.foucs; is not a valid statement, and neither is email.focus;.
These aren't right I don't think:
email.focus;
// Try email.focus();
and
x.foucs;
// Try x.focus();
Also looking at your code I don't see a </form>
Try this:
function validateForm(){
var x = document.getElementById('name');
var email = document.getElementById('email');
var num = document.getElementById('number');
var size = document.getElementById('size');
var filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\#(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
var atpos = email.value.indexOf("#");
var dotpos = email.value.lastIndexOf(".");
if (x.value == null || x.value == "") {
alert("Please Enter your name");
x.focus();
x.style.background = 'Yellow';
return false;
}
if(!filter.test(email.value){
alert('Please provide a valid email address');
email.focus();
email.value="";
return false;
}
if(num.value == null || num.value == ""){
alert('Please enter your mobile number');
num.focus();
return false;
}
if(!isNaN(num.value)){
alert('Please enter a valid number');
num.focus();
num.style.background = "Yellow";
return false;
}
return true;
}

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