Validating email in javascript?

[shivang sarawagi]

Can anyone tell me how do i validate an email in javascript ??

[olivier dutranoit]

Hi,

If you want tu use client-side validation, with javascript, the best way is to use regular expressions.
Plenty of examples on the web.

if you want use HTML5, you can use the build in validators (no script needed) :

<input type="email" placeholder="[e-mail]">

BUT, html5 is not supported very well at hte moment :-)

[Bear Bibeault]

You can use a regular expression. Search the web for examples.

Also, be sure to validated on the server as well. You can never trust what the client does.

[Mohan Mehra]

function echeck(field) {
var str = field.value;
var at = "@";
var dot=".";
var nos="0123456789";
var lat=str.indexOf(at);
var lstr=str.length;
var ldot=str.indexOf(dot);
var com=str.substring(str.lastIndexOf(dot)+1);

if (str.indexOf(at)==-1){
return false;
}

if (str.indexOf(at)==-1 || str.indexOf(at)==0 || str.indexOf(at)==lstr){
return false;
}

if (str.indexOf(dot)==-1 || str.indexOf(dot)==0 || str.indexOf(dot)==lstr){
return false;
}

if (str.indexOf(at,(lat+1))!=-1){

return false;
}

if (str.substring(lat-1,lat)==dot || str.substring(lat+1,lat+2)==dot ){


return false;
}


for(var i=0;i<com.length;i++){
if ((com.charAt(i)<='0' && com.charAt(i)<='9')){
alert("Invalid e-Mail ID anuj >>"+com);
return false;
}
}


if (str.indexOf(dot,(lat+2))==-1){

return false;
}

if (str.indexOf(" ")!=-1){

return false;
}


var elen=str.substring(str.indexOf(dot)+1);

if (elen.length<2){
return false;
}
return true;
}

[Bear Bibeault]

rajshekar mehra, please use code tags when posting code to the forums.

And why use all that code when one line with a regular expression can do the job?

[Paul Clapham]

If you're going to "validate" an e-mail address, make sure you do it right. I've seen at least one blog post where the writer stopped doing business with a company because their website rejected his e-mail address (which had a dash in it, if I remember right).

In the web application I work on, we don't validate e-mail addresses. It's up to the user to put in their e-mail address correctly. You might want to reconsider whether you even need to validate e-mail addresses. What benefits does that validation provide?