On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 9:54 AM, coder <co...@gwelanmor-internet.co.uk> wrote:
>
>               <input name="email" id="email" placeholder="Enter your Email
> Address"
> pattern="^[A-Za-z0-9](([_\.\-]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*)@([A-Za-z0-9]+)(([\.\-]?[a-zA-Z0-9]+)*)\.([A-Za-z]{2,})$"
> required type="email">

Note that's not a safe regex to validate email addresses. It will
exclude legitimate addresses like john.doe+la...@gmail.com.

I suggest just keeping it simple and checking for ^.*@.*$.

See also discussion at:

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

--
Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis


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