form validation in jquery code example

Example 1: email validation in javascript

/* JavaScript: validating email address */

isValidEmail("[email protected]"); // true

function isValidEmail(email) {
	var emailRegex = /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/;
	return !!email && typeof email === 'string'
		&& email.match(emailformat)};
};

Example 2: jquery validation plugin

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.19.2/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>

Example 3: jquery validation example

reference : https://www.sitepoint.com/basic-jquery-form-validation-tutorial/

// Wait for the DOM to be ready
$(function() {
  // Initialize form validation on the registration form.
  // It has the name attribute "registration"
  $("form[name='registration']").validate({
    // Specify validation rules
    rules: {
      // The key name on the left side is the name attribute
      // of an input field. Validation rules are defined
      // on the right side
      firstname: "required",
      lastname: "required",
      email: {
        required: true,
        // Specify that email should be validated
        // by the built-in "email" rule
        email: true
      },
      password: {
        required: true,
        minlength: 5
      }
    },
    // Specify validation error messages
    messages: {
      firstname: "Please enter your firstname",
      lastname: "Please enter your lastname",
      password: {
        required: "Please provide a password",
        minlength: "Your password must be at least 5 characters long"
      },
      email: "Please enter a valid email address"
    },
    // Make sure the form is submitted to the destination defined
    // in the "action" attribute of the form when valid
    submitHandler: function(form) {
      form.submit();
    }
  });
});

Example 4: form validation using jquery

<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery.validation/1.16.0/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
then add javascript code:
$(document).ready(function() {
   $("#form").validate();
});
</script>

Example 5: form validation using jquery

jQuery(document).ready(function() {
   jQuery("#forms).validate({
      rules: {
         firstname: 'required',
         lastname: 'required',
         u_email: {
            required: true,
            email: true,//add an email rule that will ensure the value entered is valid email id.
            maxlength: 255,
         },
      }
   });
});

Example 6: jquery form validation

function submitFunction(event){
	event.preventDefault();
}
$("#form_id").submit(submitFunction);