regex dropdown list

[Hfnet]

Hello,

Apologies if this is the wrong forum, but I have an issue using the jquery validator at

http://www.position-absolute.com/articles/jquery-form-validator-because-form-validation-is-a-mess/

It works great except for dropdown lists in Firefox. if I tab through a web form in IE and do not enter any values, it will show the error but in Firefox it does not.

The dropdowns have --- Please Select --- visible and basically I need to check that a value is entered in the dropdowns. Currently it checks by regex:

"Choose":{
"regex":"/^[0-9a-zA-Z /\~|()-]+$/",
"alertText":"* Please make a selection"}

What I really need is to just check that the value is NOT "--- Please Select ---"

Can anyone offer any advice please?

 

[feherke]

Hi

The dropdowns have --- Please Select --- visible
[gray](...)[/gray]
What I really need is to just check that the value is NOT "--- Please Select ---"

So the "Please Select" is the text, the value or both ? Would be easier to understand if you post the related HTML too.

However for now I see no sign of AJAX. That looks like plain forum216.

By the way, if you intend to allow backslash ( \ ), note that it is a metacharacter used for escaping other metacharacters. so you have to escape it : [tt]/^[0-9a-zA-Z /[highlight]\[/highlight]\~|()-]+$/[/tt] .

Feherke.

http://free.rootshell.be/~feherke/