email validatior js code example

Example 1: email regex javascript

/* Answer to: "email regex javascript" */

ValidateEmail("[email protected]"); // Must be a string

function ValidateEmail(email) {
	var emailformat = /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/.test(String(email).toLowerCase());
	if (email.match(emailformat)) {
    	alert("Nice Email!")
      	return true;
    };
    alert("That's not an email?!")
    return (false);
};

Example 2: how to set validation for email in javascript

<script language="javascript">

function checkEmail() {

    var email = document.getElementById('txtEmail');
    var filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;

    if (!filter.test(email.value)) {
    alert('Please provide a valid email address');
    email.focus;
    return false;
 }
}</script>