Alphabets only valitation

[prem ranjith]

Hellow friends

How to validate the text field, alphabets only.. any one can help me.

With Regards
premranjith

[David Newton]

Validate against a regular expression.

[prem ranjith]

have any example.. becase i am new one

[David Newton]

I don't know what version of Struts you're using.

[prem ranjith]

strts1.2

[David Newton]

http://struts.apache.org/1.2.9/userGuide/dev_validator.html

See the "mask" validator.

[Richard Golebiowski]

Design wise, wouldn't it be better to filter the user input so that only alphabetical characters are allowed?

[David Newton]

No, although that can be done as well. Client-side validation is not a replacement for server-side validation--it is a usability enhancement.

[Richard Golebiowski]

Not validation, filtering. Let's take the case of a phone number into a text field. Wouldn't the best practice be to only allow numbers to be input into that field? What's the point of doing it server side and kicking it out when the user could have been saved the hassle on the client side of having to redo it? Server side validation is still good to do to as a precaution, but as good design shouldn't the first step be to prevent invalid input?

[David Newton]

Richard Golebiowski wrote:Not validation, filtering. Let's take the case of a phone number into a text field. Wouldn't the best practice be to only allow numbers to be input into that field? What's the point of doing it server side and kicking it out when the user could have been saved the hassle on the client side of having to redo it? Server side validation is still good to do to as a precaution, but as good design shouldn't the first step be to prevent invalid input?

As I said, client-side [whatever you want to call it] is fine, but ultimately is nothing but user experience enhancement. Input filtering a subset of validation.