RE: [ cf-dev ] OT : Custom form attribs + Netscape

[Sam Westlake]

What Neil said.   Just tested this in FireFox ... updated the form field to use "id" as well as "name" attributes, although this isn't necessarily needed.   <script language="_javascript_">  function loopval(formname) {   // set up form variables   var re = /^.+\@(\[?)[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,3}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$/;   theForm = document.forms[''+formname+''];   looplen = theForm.length;   var errorInd =0;   var errorMsg ='The following errors were found\n';      alert(looplen);     //loop over length of form    for(i=0 ; i<parseInt(looplen) ; i++) {     //alert(i + " is the current loop position");     //setup looping vars     switchObj = theForm[i].getAttribute('validate');      formVal = theForm[i].getAttribute('value');      fieldName = theForm[i].getAttribute('name');      // NETSCAPE CHECK alert(theForm[i].getAttribute('validate'));     //switch statement    switch(switchObj) {      case 'txt' : if (!isNaN(formVal)) {   alert("Found an Error");        errorInd=1;         errorMsg =errorMsg + 'The field '+fieldName+' must contain alphanumerics\n';           };      break;      case 'nmb' : if (isNaN(formVal)) {         errorInd=1;         errorMsg = errorMsg +'The field '+fieldName+' must contain only numbers\n';           };      break;      case 'email' : if(!formVal.match(re)) {    errorInd=1;    errorMsg = errorMsg +'The field '+fieldName+' must contain a syntactically valid Email address\n';    };   break;         }   alert("Error no is " + errorInd);      }    if (errorInd ==1) {     alert(errorMsg);      }    else {theForm.submit(); }   }   </script>     <form name="test" id="test" method="post" action="">    <input type="text" name="txtbox1" id="txtbox1" validate="txt">  <input type="text" name="txtbox2" id="txtbox2" validate="nmb">  <input type="text" name="txtbox3" id="txtbox3" validate="email">  <input type="text" name="txtbox4" id="txtbox4" validate="that">  <input type="text" name="txtbox5" id="txtbox5" validate="other">  <input type="button" >   </form> From: Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2004 14:07 To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [ cf-dev ] OT : Custom form attribs + Netscape In fact just change Line 17 to :    switchObj = theForm[i].getAttribute('Validate');   Job done..       From: Matt Horn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 20 July 2004 13:41 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ cf-dev ] OT : Custom form attribs + Netscape     Hi I have written a sexy little _javascript_ form validator it relies on custom attribs within the form fields however <input type="text" name="textbox" Validate="txt">   and based on the value of document.forms['theform'][x].Validate   a validation routine is run    however Mozilla doesnt seem to be able to read the value of the custom attrib   anyone know why?   here is my code   --------------------------- <script language="_javascript_">      function loopval(formname) {   // set up form variables   var re = /^.+\@(\[?)[a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+\.([a-zA-Z]{2,3}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$/;   theForm = document.forms[''+formname+''];   looplen = theForm.length;   var errorInd =0;   var errorMsg ='The following errors were found\n';       alert(looplen);     //loop over length of form    for(i=0 ; i<looplen ; i++) {     alert(i);     //setup looping vars     switchObj = theForm[i].validate;      formVal = theForm[i].value;      fieldName = theForm[i].name;      // NETSCAPE CHECK alert(theForm[i].validate.value);     //switch statement     switch(switchObj) {      case 'txt' : if (!isNaN(formVal)) {         errorInd=1;         errorMsg =errorMsg + 'The field '+fieldName+' must contain alphanumerics\n';            };      break;      case 'nmb' : if (isNaN(formVal)) {         errorInd=1;         errorMsg = errorMsg +'The field '+fieldName+' must contain only numbers\n';            };      break;      case 'email' : if(!formVal.match(re)) {          errorInd=1;          errorMsg = errorMsg +'The field '+fieldName+' must contain a syntactically valid Email address\n';          };         break;          }     }    if (errorInd ==1) {     alert(errorMsg);       }    else {theForm.submit(); }    }    </script>   <form name="test" method="post" action="">    <input type="text" name="txtbox"  validate="txt">  <input type="text" name="txtbox"   validate="nmb">  <input type="text" name="txtbox"   validate="email">  <input type="text" name="txtbox"   validate="that">  <input type="text" name="txtbox"   validate="other">  <input type="button" >   </form>     |\--------------------/| Matt Horn Web Applications Developer Ph:+2782 424 3751 W: http://www.matt-horn.org E:[EMAIL PROTECTED] |\--------------------/| This e-mail is from Reed Exhibitions (Oriel House, 26 The Quadrant, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1DL, United Kingdom), a division of Reed Business, Registered in England, Number 678540. 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