If any illegal char exist do.. script help

[wesselinbg]

Hello everyone! My name is Veselin and i'm php and mysql coder. But now i have big problems with one javascript that i want to create (maybe because i don't understand nothing from javascript :)). I want to create validate form that search for illegal chars. "." "/" "_" "\" ","

My form name: MyJavaScriptFor m
Field that i want to check: MyField


I'm made this..

[CODE=javascript]function check(){



if ( i don't know what ){
alert('There are illegals!');

document.MyJava ScriptForm.MyFi eld.focus();
return false;
}



document.MyJava ScriptForm.subm it();

}[/CODE]


Can you help me please? Thank you!

[acoder]

Maybe you could just check for valid characters instead, but that really depends. If you only want alphanumeric characters, it's better to check against that instead of checking for every illegal character. However, if you want to allow any character except those that you've listed, then it makes more sense to check for those instead.

Now, how do we validate? The first thing to do is to get the input field value. Then you can use regular expressions to check the value. See these links:

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide:Regular_Expressions

http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp