Validate forms when users enter spaces 1

[benniesanders]

Greetings, I have a lengthy user form and we've noticed some of the site visitors are hitting the spacebar for one of the fields. I have a form validator in place, but if they hit the space bar, it moves on to the next field.

Here's a snippet of my validation code for the rogue field:

if (myForm.hschool.value == ""){
 alert("High school name is required");
 myForm.hschool.focus();
 return false;}

Is there a way I can combat this?

many thanks. Bennie

 

[Diancecht]

Time for a trim:

http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/701

Cheers,
Dian

 

[monksnake]

I have a question. Could any high school in the world be a possible entry into your field, or is it just a few select high schools that would be entered into that field?

(meaning what is the scope of your site?)

If say your site is for London high school graduates, then a <select> box would be a good idea, not only would you force content from that field, it would also be valid content no matter what.

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[benniesanders]

Hi Monksnake, I wish I could use a dropdown, but no good. It's a nationwide site. It's actually an out of town measurements form for a tuxedo provider

Diancecht, I'll read the link the you sent. Thanks very much.

 

[benniesanders]

CORRECTION. It's a Prom Agent form and covers all high schools, but still it's nationwide for a Tuxedo provider.

 

[benniesanders]

Dian, I'm SO not a javascript guru. I wouldn't even know where to start with the link you sent; how to modify my code with that trim function. Thank you very much anyway.

 

[kaht]

You stick the prototype declaration somewhere between the <script> tags and then make the following change:

if (myForm.hschool.value.trim() == ""){

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[monksnake]

benniesanders, I'll try to help.

When you ask in your initial post:

>>Is there a way I can combat this?

Do you mean just for not allowing a space to be entered? If so, just change this:

if (myForm.hschool.value == ""){

to this:

if (String(myForm.hschool.value).replace(/ /g, "") == "")  {

That will not allow any combination of JUST spaces to be entered as a valid School.

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[kaht]

Just make sure that you don't actually replace the value when doing that, otherwise Jersey Community High School becomes JerseyCommunityHighSchool.

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[benniesanders]

Thank you everybody for this help. Monksnake's answer fixed the spaces problem. I don't know why these kids enter info in all of the other fields and not this one and the highschool field is very important. Go figure! Many thanks again to everyone.

 

[monksnake]

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