Email validation using jQuery

Question

I'm new to jQuery and was wondering how to use it to validate email addresses.

Answer 1

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
      $('.form_error').hide();
      $('#submit').click(function(){
           var name = $('#name').val();
           var email = $('#email').val();
           var phone = $('#phone').val();
           var message = $('#message').val();
           if(name== ''){
              $('#name').next().show();
              return false;
            }
            if(email== ''){
               $('#email').next().show();
               return false;
            }
            if(IsEmail(email)==false){
                $('#invalid_email').show();
                return false;
            }

            if(phone== ''){
                $('#phone').next().show();
                return false;
            }
            if(message== ''){
                $('#message').next().show();
                return false;
            }
            //ajax call php page
            $.post("send.php", $("#contactform").serialize(),  function(response) {
            $('#contactform').fadeOut('slow',function(){
                $('#success').html(response);
                $('#success').fadeIn('slow');
               });
             });
             return false;
          });
      });
      function IsEmail(email) {
        var regex = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-\+])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
        if(!regex.test(email)) {
           return false;
        }else{
           return true;
        }
      }
  </script>

<form action="" method="post" id="contactform">
                            <table class="contact-table">
                              <tr>
                                <td><label for="name">Name :</label></td>
                                <td class="name"> <input name="name" id="name" type="text" placeholder="Please enter your name" class="contact-input"><span class="form_error">Please enter your name</span></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td><label for="email">Email :</label></td>
                                <td class="email"><input name="email" id="email" type="text" placeholder="Please enter your email" class="contact-input"><span class="form_error">Please enter your email</span>
                                  <span class="form_error" id="invalid_email">This email is not valid</span></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td><label for="phone">Phone :</label></td>
                                <td class="phone"><input name="phone" id="phone" type="text" placeholder="Please enter your phone" class="contact-input"><span class="form_error">Please enter your phone</span></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td><label for="message">Message :</label></td>
                                <td class="message"><textarea name="message" id="message" class="contact-input"></textarea><span class="form_error">Please enter your message</span></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td></td>
                                <td>
                                  <input type="submit" class="contactform-buttons" id="submit"value="Send" />
                                  <input type="reset" class="contactform-buttons" id="" value="Clear" />
                                </td>
                              </tr>
                            </table>
     </form>
     <div id="success" style="color:red;"></div>

Answer 2

Bug is in Jquery Validation Validation Plugin Only validates with @ to change this

change the code to this

email: function( value, element ) {
    // From http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html#e-mail-state-%28type=email%29
    // Retrieved 2014-01-14
    // If you have a problem with this implementation, report a bug against the above spec
    // Or use custom methods to implement your own email validation
    return this.optional( element ) || /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/.test( value );
}

Answer 3

you should see this:jquery.validate.js,add it to your project

using it like this:

<input id='email' name='email' class='required email'/>

Answer 4

Javascript Email Validation in MVC/ASP.NET

The problem I came across while using Fabian's answer, is implementing it in an MVC view because of the Razor @ symbol. You have to include an additional @ symbol to escape it, like so: @@

To Avoid Razor In MVC

function isEmail(email) {
  var regex = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-])+\@@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
  return regex.test(email);
}

I didn't see it elsewhere on this page, so I thought it might be helpful.

EDIT

Here's a link from Microsoft describing it's usage.
I just tested the code above and got the following js:

function validateEmail(email) {
  var regex = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/; 
  return regex.test(email);
}

Which is doing exactly what it's supposed to do.

Answer 5

function isValidEmail(emailText) {
    var pattern = new RegExp(/^((([a-z]|\d|[!#\$%&'\*\+\-\/=\?\^_`{\|}~]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+(\.([a-z]|\d|[!#\$%&'\*\+\-\/=\?\^_`{\|}~]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+)*)|((\x22)((((\x20|\x09)*(\x0d\x0a))?(\x20|\x09)+)?(([\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x7f]|\x21|[\x23-\x5b]|[\x5d-\x7e]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(\\([\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0d-\x7f]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF]))))*(((\x20|\x09)*(\x0d\x0a))?(\x20|\x09)+)?(\x22)))@((([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.)+(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.?$/i);
    return pattern.test(emailText);
};

Use Like This :

if( !isValidEmail(myEmail) ) { /* do things if myEmail is valid. */ }

Answer 6

use this

if ($this.hasClass('tb-email')) {
    var email = $this.val();
    var txt = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-\+])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
    if (!txt.test(email)) {
        e.preventDefault();
        $this.addClass('error');
    } else {
        $this.removeClass('error');
    }
}