Preventing certain characters

[Phil Amey]

I would like to prevent certain characters from being input to some form cells, e.g. ~ # ' and so on.

I'm currently using this format to check the input data of cells -

if (document.form1 .EMAIL.value == ""){
alert("Please complete the E-Mail: field")
document.form1. EMAIL.focus()
validFlag = false
return validFlag
}

It would also be nice to learn how to check this particular cell for a valid email address, I assume that you search for the @.

Could someone show me how I could modify this to prevent characters of my choice.

Kindest Regards - Philip Amey

[Brian Genisio]

Re: Preventing certain characters

Phil Amey wrote:
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> I would like to prevent certain characters from being input to some form cells, e.g. ~ # ' and so on.
>
> I'm currently using this format to check the input data of cells -
>
> if (document.form1 .EMAIL.value == ""){
> alert("Please complete the E-Mail: field")
> document.form1. EMAIL.focus()
> validFlag = false
> return validFlag
> }
>
> It would also be nice to learn how to check this particular cell for a valid email address, I assume that you search for the @.
>
> Could someone show me how I could modify this to prevent characters of my choice.
>
> Kindest Regards - Philip Amey
>[/color]

For removing special characters, use the javascript string methods
(indexOf, substr, split, join, etc) to do it the way you need.

For email addresses, I like to make sure there is an @ character, and in
the host side, there is a high-level domain *.* (*.com, *.net, *.edu,
etc, but stay with *.*, since it it is tough to know which high-level
domain names will exist in the future)

VERY IMPORTANT: Do not rely on javascript to make sure your server-side
form handler gets the correct input. If my browser does not support
javascript, or I simply send the HTTP request by hand, I can _easily_
circumvent the special characters, and break your form handler, if it
does not handle the special characters as well.

VERY IMPORTANT: Do not disregard the previous statement :)

Good luck,
Brian