How do I tell my input to validate email inputs with the tld?
I don't want to accept email addresses in the form a#b.
I am aware I can specify a regex pattern to assert this behaviour, but this feels like a hacky approach. Is there a native attribute I can use to force the input element to validate the email address, including tld?
<form>
<input type="email" required="required" pattern="^[^#\s]+#([^#\s]+\.)+[^#\s]+$" value="a#b" />
<input type="submit"/>
</form>
There isn't a native attribute to validate the TLD. You can use the pattern attribute to validate the TLD though. I have the copy and paste code snippet here: https://github.com/coliff/html5-email-regex
Related
Is there any way to validate inputs in the form using HMTL?
For example:
<input type="text" class="input-text error"
aria-required="true" placeholder="Enter your name *"
aria-invalid="true" required />
If user adds a special character to input, an error message saying "Characters are not allowed" should be shown below the input box.
First of all, client-side form validation is the greatest feature coming with the HTML5. Client-side form validation helps you to ensure data submitted matches the requirements. To get more detail about it you can visit here.
Important Note
Client-side form validation is an initial check, You should not use data coming from the form on the server side without checking it. It just a feature for good user experience. Because client-side validation is too easy to manipulate, so users can still easily send data that you do not want to on your server.
Solution
In this question, the best solution is; using HTML attribute pattern. The pattern attribute defines a regular expression the form control's value should match. To get more detail about pattern attribute you can visit the this page.
Below regexp you need.
^[a-zA-Z0-9]{5,12}$
It works like that;
It should contains only alphanumeric.
Minumum 5 and maximum 10
character.
You can use below code to integrate it with input field.
<form action="">
<input type="text" name="name" required
pattern="[a-zA-Z0-9]{5,12}" title="No special character">
<input type="submit">
</form>
Usually, to check inputs from html tags, you can create a javascript function to check your needs which is called everytime the user type in your input with the "onkeyup()" function.
The "onkeyup" keyword will trigger the function everytime user type in your field
<input type="text" onkeyup="myFunctionToCheck()">
<script>
myFunctionToCheck(){
//Here check your needs
}
</script>
Is it possible to require a "." after the "#"?
The required validation only forces an email to have some content after the "#", but I would like to require a "." to make the user type in ".com/.org/etc"
http://jsfiddle.net/X6Uuc/333/
If you're relying on the input[type=email] you can also use the pattern attr:
I got theRegEx in the example below from the W3C spec for the email input. The native pattern uses * in the last part then it's not required, I only changed it to +;
<form>
<input type="email" pattern="^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&’*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+#[a-zA-Z0-9-]+(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9-]+)+$" required />
<button>Submit</button>
</form>
I am new to HTML5...
Here i am having some problem with email pattern attribute...
1)if i am giving the input like user#gmail.com... in email field..
2)it's not accepting value and showing "Pattern not matched"..
Help me to fix this....
Here is the snippet of Html
<form name='f1' method="POST" action="" >
<div id="fp">
<span style="margin-left:-50px">Email:</span>
<span><input class="input" type="email" name="Email" placeholder="Enter mailID" required pattern="^[A-Z0-9._%+-]+#[A-Z0-9.-]+\.[A-Z]{2,4}$" ></span><br>
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="submit">
</div>
</form>
Any suggestions are acceptable....
this should be correct pattern
[^#]+#[^#]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}
yes you forgot to consider lower case.
you can refer this document for more details
html5-form-validation-with-regex
The accepted answer won't validate marian#iflove.technology
In this case not to miss out all those new domain names emails like http://www.iflove.technology/ you could use:
[^#]+#[^#]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}
Used with input type email it looks like this:
<input type="email" pattern="[^#]+#[^#]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,}">
You need to account for lower cases too. Or make it case insensitive. But in reality you should just use:
^.+#.+$
And send a confirmation e-mail to the address that they should follow because e-mail addresses are reasonably complicated and you'll end up blocking stuff you don't intend to with a regex and it doesn't stop someone putting in a fake e-mail address anyway.
It is very difficult to validate Email correctly simply using HTML5 attribute "pattern". If you do not use a "pattern" someone# will be processed. which is NOT valid email.
Using pattern="[a-zA-Z]{3,}#[a-zA-Z]{3,}[.]{1}[a-zA-Z]{2,}[.]{1}[a-zA-Z]{2,}" will require the format to be someone#email.com
Simply remove the pattern attribute. The type="email" is enough.
I'm using this pattern right now, seems to work just fine:
[a-zA-Z0-9._\-]+#[a-zA-Z0-9.\-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,4}
My solution to override html5 validation type='email'. I run this code after DOM loaded
$(document).ready(function(){
$('input[type=email]').attr('pattern', "^([\\w]+[\\.]{0,1})+#([\\w-]+\\.)+[\\w]{2,4}$").attr('type', 'text').attr('title', 'Please enter an email address')
})
Is there a way to use HTML5's built in form validation in input elements that are NOT required? I.e. is there a way to validate an HTML5 input if and only if the field has an actual value?
For example, I'd like to use the following markup to check whether some_name is a URL if and only if the user actually enters a value in the input. If the user leaves the input blank, the form should still be able to submit as usual.
<input type="url" name="some_name" [some attribute or additional markup?]/>
Thanks very much for your help.
Use the pattern attribute that accepts javascript regular expressions.
<input type="url" name="some_name" pattern="your regular expression"/>
How do I send an email with specified initial values for the headers subject and message from a button in html, such as this
<form method="post" action="mailto:email.com?subject=subject&message=message">
where subject and message are values fetched from a form?
You can use mailto, here is the HTML code:
<a href="mailto:EMAILADDRESS">
Replace EMAILADDRESS with your email.
This method doesn't seem to work in my browser, and looking around indicates that the whole subject of specifying headers to a mailto link/action is sparsely supported, but maybe this can help...
HTML:
<form id="fr1">
<input type="text" id="tb1" />
<input type="text" id="tb2" />
<input type="button" id="bt1" value="click" />
</form>
JavaScript (with jQuery):
$(document).ready(function() {
$('#bt1').click(function() {
$('#fr1').attr('action',
'mailto:test#test.com?subject=' +
$('#tb1').val() + '&body=' + $('#tb2').val());
$('#fr1').submit();
});
});
Notice what I'm doing here. The form itself has no action associated with it. And the submit button isn't really a submit type, it's just a button type. Using JavaScript, I'm binding to that button's click event, setting the form's action attribute, and then submitting the form.
It's working in so much as it submits the form to a mailto action (my default mail program pops up and opens a new message to the specified address), but for me (Safari, Mail.app) it's not actually specifying the Subject or Body in the resulting message.
HTML isn't really a very good medium for doing this, as I'm sure others are pointing out while I type this. It's possible that this may work in some browsers and/or some mail clients. However, it's really not even a safe assumption anymore that users will have a fat mail client these days. I can't remember the last time I opened mine. HTML's mailto is a bit of legacy functionality and, these days, it's really just as well that you perform the mail action on the server-side if possible.
As David notes, his suggestion does not actually fulfill the OP's request, which was an email with subject and message. It doesn't work because most, maybe all, combinations of browsers plus e-mail clients do not accept the subject and body attributes of the mailto: URI when supplied as a <form>'s action.
But here's a working example:
HTML (with Bootstrap styles):
<p><input id="subject" type="text" placeholder="type your subject here"
class="form-control"></p>
<p><input id="message" type="text" placeholder="type your message here"
class="form-control"></p>
<p><a id="mail-link" class="btn btn-primary">Create email</a></p>
JavaScript (with jQuery):
<script type="text/javascript">
function loadEvents() {
var mailString;
function updateMailString() {
mailString = '?subject=' + encodeURIComponent($('#subject').val())
+ '&body=' + encodeURIComponent($('#message').val());
$('#mail-link').attr('href', 'mailto:person#email.com' + mailString);
}
$( "#subject" ).focusout(function() { updateMailString(); });
$( "#message" ).focusout(function() { updateMailString(); });
updateMailString();
}
</script>
Notes:
The <form> element with associated action attribute is not used.
The <input> element of type button is also not used.
<a> styled as a button (here using Bootstrap) replaces <input type="button">
focusout() with updateMailString() is necessary because the <a> tag's href attribute does not automatically update when the input fields' values change.
updateMailString() is also called when document is loaded in case the input fields are prepopulated.
Also encodeURIComponent() is used to get characters such as the quotation mark (") across to Outlook.
In this approach, the mailto: URI is supplied (with subject and body attributes) in an a element's href tag. This works in all combinations of browsers and e-mail clients I have tested, which are recent (2015) versions of:
Browsers: Firefox/Win&OSX, Chrome/Win&OSX, IE/Win, Safari/OSX&iOS, Opera/OSX
E-mail clients: Outlook/Win, Mail.app/OSX&iOS, Sparrow/OSX
Bonus tip: In my use cases, I add some contextual text to the e-mail body. More often than not, I want that text to contain line breaks. %0D%0A (carriage return and linefeed) works in my tests.
I couldn't ever find an answer that really satisfied the original question, so I put together a simple free service (PostMail) that allows you to make a standard HTTP POST request to send an email. When you sign up, it provides you with code that you can copy & paste into your website. In this case, you can simply use a form post:
HTML:
<form action="https://postmail.invotes.com/send"
method="post" id="email_form">
<input type="text" name="subject" placeholder="Subject" />
<textarea name="text" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
<!-- replace value with your access token -->
<input type="hidden" name="access_token" value="{your access token}" />
<input type="hidden" name="success_url"
value=".?message=Email+Successfully+Sent%21&isError=0" />
<input type="hidden" name="error_url"
value=".?message=Email+could+not+be+sent.&isError=1" />
<input id="submit_form" type="submit" value="Send" />
</form>
Again, in full disclosure, I created this service because I could not find a suitable answer.
You can not directly send an email with a HTML form. You can however send the form to your web server and then generate the email with a server side program written in e.g. PHP.
The other solution is to create a link as you did with the "mailto:". This will open the local email program from the user. And he/she can then send the pre-populated email.
When you decided how you wanted to do it you can ask another (more specific) question on this site. (Or you can search for a solution somewhere on the internet.)
#user544079
Even though it is very old and irrelevant now, I am replying to help people like me!
it should be like this:
<form method="post" action="mailto:$emailID?subject=$MySubject &message= $MyMessageText">
Here
$emailID,
$MySubject,
$MyMessageText are variables which you assign from a FORM or a DATABASE Table or just you can assign values in your code itself. Alternatively you can put the code like this (normally it is not used):
<form method="post" action="mailto:admin#website.com?subject=New Registration Alert &message= New Registration requires your approval">
You can use an anchor to attempt to open the user's default mail client, prepopulated, with mailto:, but you cannot send the actual email. *Apparently it is possible to do this with a form action as well, but browser support is varied and unreliable, so I do not suggest it.
HTML cannot send mail, you need to use a server side language like php, which is another topic. There are plently of good resources on how to do this here on SO or elsewhere on the internet.
If you are using php, I see SwiftMailer suggested quite a bit.
<form action="mailto:someone#example.com" method="post" enctype="text/plain">
Name:<br>
<input type="text" name="name"><br>
E-mail:<br>
<input type="text" name="mail"><br>
Comment:<br>
<input type="text" name="comment" size="50"><br><br>
<input type="submit" value="Send">
<input type="reset" value="Reset">