i have a cfform input tag for email address. it is not required that they enter one.
on the script below, it works fine when they enter something in field but opens an invalid entry popup if field is left empty. i have required="no"... also there are 4 email fields in the form: blm_eml1, blm_eml2.....so on <cfinput type="Text" name="blm_eml1" validateat="onSubmit" message="One of your Email addresses in invalid!" validate="regular_expression" pattern="^([0-9a-zA-Z]([-.\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z])*@([0-9a-zA-Z][-\w]*[0-9a-zA-Z]\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,9})$" required="No" visible="Yes" enabled="Yes" showautosuggestloadingicon="False" typeahead="No" size="25" maxlength="50" class="style6a" id="blm_eml1"> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:319518 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4