Email validation using jQuery

Question

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

Answer 1

Another simple and complete option:

<input type="text" id="Email"/>
<div id="ClasSpan"></div>   
<input id="ValidMail" type="submit"  value="Valid"/>  


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

$("#ValidMail").click(function () {
    $('span', '#ClasSpan').empty().remove();
    if (IsEmail($("#Email").val())) {
        //aqui mi sentencia        
    }
    else {
        $('#ClasSpan').append('<span>Please enter a valid email</span>');
        $('#Email').keypress(function () {
            $('span', '#itemspan').empty().remove();
        });
    }
});

Answer 2

A simplified one I've just made, does what I need it to. Have limited it to just alphanumeric, period, underscore and @.

<input onKeyUp="testEmailChars(this);"><span id="a"></span>
function testEmailChars(el){
    var email = $(el).val();
    if ( /^[a-zA-Z0-9_@.-]+$/.test(email)==true ){
        $("#a").html("valid");
    } else {
        $("#a").html("not valid");
    }
}

Made with help from others

Answer 3

jQuery Function to Validate Email

I really don’t like to use plugins, especially when my form only has one field that needs to be validated. I use this function and call it whenever I need to validate an email form field.

 function validateEmail($email) {
  var emailReg = /^([\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/;
  return emailReg.test( $email );
}

and now to use this

if( !validateEmail(emailaddress)) { /* do stuff here */ }

Cheers!

Answer 4

• http://so.devilmaycode.it/jquery-validate-e-mail-address-regex/
• using new regex
• added support for Address tags (+ sign)

function isValidEmailAddress(emailAddress) {
    var pattern = /^([a-z\d!#$%&'*+\-\/=?^_`{|}~\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF]+(\.[a-z\d!#$%&'*+\-\/=?^_`{|}~\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF]+)*|"((([ \t]*\r\n)?[ \t]+)?([\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]))*(([ \t]*\r\n)?[ \t]+)?")@(([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(emailAddress);
};

if( !isValidEmailAddress( emailaddress ) ) { /* do stuff here (email is invalid) */ }

this was provided by user Luca Filosofi in this answer this answer

Answer 5

This performs a more thorough validation, for example it checks against successive dots in the username such as [e-mail]

function isValidEmail(email)
{
    return /^[a-z0-9]+([-._][a-z0-9]+)*@([a-z0-9]+(-[a-z0-9]+)*\.)+[a-z]{2,4}$/.test(email)
        && /^(?=.{1,64}@.{4,64}$)(?=.{6,100}$).*/.test(email);
}

See validate email address using regular expression in JavaScript.

Answer 6

<script type = "text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type = "text/javascript">
    function ValidateEmail(email) {
        var expr = /^([\w-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([\w-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$/;
        return expr.test(email);
    };
    $("#btnValidate").live("click", function () {
        if (!ValidateEmail($("#txtEmail").val())) {
            alert("Invalid email address.");
        }
        else {
            alert("Valid email address.");
        }
    });
</script>
<input type = "text" id = "txtEmail" />
<input type = "button" id = "btnValidate" value = "Validate" />