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Learn to Create a simple form validator in jQuery

We have ended up our last session by learning to implement media player in jQuery. Today we will continue jQuery programming session by creating a form validator in it. Form validation is a really an important feature for web security. Almost 99.99% website validate their form before submitting just to prevent any kind of malicious activity. JQuery also can validate web forms in a good way. But jQuery is not a server side language so we cannot retrieve data from database using jQuery. But it works very well from the client side without any load on server.

Let’s start coding:

Head tag metarial:

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.4/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.microsoft.com/ajax/jQuery.Validate/1.6/jQuery.Validate.min.js"></script>

Just add these script tags. First code has jQuery library file and the second has the jQuery validate plugin.

jQuery coding:

<script>
	$(document).ready(function() {
		$("#form").validate();
});
</script>

In this jQuery coding, validate(); function is a really important part of this article which works with the support of jQuery validate plugin. This function can validate all of our form with some HTML adjustment.

$(“#form”).validate();

And #form is the id to select the form as you can see in the HTML markup.

<form id=”form”>

   <label for=”fname”>Insert First Name</label>
   <input class=”required” type=”text” id=”fname”>

   <label for=”lname”>Insert Last Name</label>
   <input class=”required” name=”lastName” type=”text” id=”lname” >

   <label for=”email”>Email</label>
   <input class=”required email” type=”text” id=”email”>

   <label for=”pnumber”>Insert phone number</label>
   <input class=”required” type="text" id=”pnumber”>

   <label for=”age”>Insert your age</label>
   <input type=”date” id=”age”>

   <input class=”button” type=”submit” value=”Get register” />

</form>

Note: When you markup the HTML for validating a form using jQuery validate plugin then you must remember to add a class “required” with every element which you need to validate. For validating in the perfect way, add a class “required email”.

I hope you have enjoyed and learnt in simple way to create a form validator in jQuery. Please let us know your reviews regarding this topic in the comments below and stay tuned for next jQuery session.

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