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Patrick Kwinten
Patrick Kwinten

Reputation: 2048

re-use regular expression on clientside for onkeyup event

For my xpages/jsf application I have setup for an xe:input control the following validation:

<xp:this.validators>
    <xp:validateConstraint
        regex="${application.regex_email}"
        message="please follow the rules">
    </xp:validateConstraint>
    <xp:validateRequired
        message="follow the rules">
    </xp:validateRequired>
</xp:this.validators>

The regular expression I use:

regex_email=^([\\w-]+(?:\\.[\\w-]+)*)@(acme\\.org|acme\\.com)

(so I allow only email addresses from acme.org and asme.com domains).

This works fine but I want to apply the same to validation to the client-side, so in the onkeyup event that same (or similar) regex is used. But I do not know how. Can anyone explain how to?

Basically I want to prevent that users enter capitals in the allowed mail domains.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 54

Answers (2)

remix23
remix23

Reputation: 3019

Here is a very basic javascript implementation of such validation (triggered when the input looses focus but you can use the event of your choosing)

// Note the 'i' flag to ignore case
const emailPattern = /^([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)@(acme\.org|acme\.com)/i;

const emailInput = document.getElementById('email');
const errorSpan = document.getElementById('error');
const inputForm = document.getElementById('form');

function isEmailValid() {
  const inputContent = emailInput.value;
  return emailPattern.test(inputContent);
}

function normalizeEmailInput() {
  const value = (emailInput.value ?? '').trim();
  const match = emailPattern.exec(value);
  // lower case domain only, but you could lower case the whole string and ignore what I did with the pattern
  emailInput.value = match !== null ? `${match[1]}@${match[2].toLowerCase()}` : value;
}

emailInput.addEventListener('blur', () => {
  normalizeEmailInput();
  errorSpan.style.display = isEmailValid() ? 'none' : 'inline';
});

emailInput.addEventListener('keyup', () => {
  normalizeEmailInput();
});

inputForm.addEventListener('submit', (evt) => {
  if (isEmailValid()) {
    alert('all good');
  } else {
    alert('Invalid email');
    evt.preventDefault();
  }
});
#error {
  color: red;
  display: none;
}
<form id="form">
<input id="email" type="text" /><br />
<span id="error">Invalid email</span><br />
<button type="submit">Submit</button>
</form>

Upvotes: 1

ControlAltDel
ControlAltDel

Reputation: 35096

As per my comment about using the pattern attribute, here is an example. The pattern in this snippet is "foo\d" It won't let you submit until the regex matches

<form>
<input pattern="foo\d" />
<input type="submit">
</form>

Upvotes: 0

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