how to validate marital status in java script

[banjuu]

[HTML]<tr>
<td class="headingg ry" height="20">Mar tial Status</td>
<td class="alternat e3"><div align="left"><s pan >

<select>
<option value="married" selected="selec ted">Married</option>
<option value="single"> Single</option>
<option value="divorced ">Divorced</option>
</select>
</span></div></td>
</tr>[/HTML]

[acoder]

Welcome to TSDN!

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Changed a typo in the title - I think you meant marital rather than martial.

How do you want to validate it?

[banjuu]

Welcome to TSDN!

Please remember to use code tags when posting code.

Changed a typo in the title - I think you meant marital rather than martial.

How do you want to validate it?

[HTML]<tr>
<td class="headingg ry" height="20">Mar tial Status</td>
<td class="alternat e3"><div align="left"><s pan >

<select>
<option value="blank" selected="selec ted"> </option>
<option value="single"> Single</option>
<option value="divorced ">Divorced</option>
</select>
</span></div></td>
</tr>
[/HTML]
it shows blank in display form.

my aim is to validate tht martial status tht should alert saying plz select one of the options in martial status.

[acoder]

You originally had "married" as the first option. Now it makes more sense.

Do you want this validation to happen when the user submits the form?

[banjuu]

yaaaaaaaaa.


plz help me yaar .how to do tht.

[acoder]

Give the marital select element an id,e.g.
[HTML]<select id="marital">[/HTML] Add a validation function which returns true or false using onsubmit on the form:
[HTML]<form ...onsubmit="re turn validate(this); ">[/HTML]
Your validate function could look something like:
[CODE=javascript]function validate(form) {
var marital = document.getEle mentById("marit al");
if (marital.value == "blank") {
alert ("whatever message you want to put here.");
return false;
}
return true;
}[/CODE]