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Try It Out - A Simple Form with Validation

Let's put all the above information on text boxes and buttons together into an example. In this example we have a simple form consisting of two text boxes and a button. The top text box is for the user's name, the second for their age. We do various validity checks. We check the validity of the age text box when it loses focus. However, the name and age text boxes are only checked to see if they are empty when the button is clicked.

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>
function butCheckForm_onclick()
{
   var myForm = document.form1;
   if (myForm.txtAge.value == "" || myForm.txtName.value == "")
   {
      alert("Please complete all the form");
      if (myForm.txtName.value == "")
      {
         myForm.txtName.focus();
      }
      else
      {
         myForm.txtAge.focus();
      }
   }
   else
   {
      alert("Thanks for completing the form " + myForm.txtName.value);
   }
}
function txtAge_onblur()
{
   var txtAge = document.form1.txtAge;
   if (isNaN(txtAge.value) == true)
   {
      alert("Please enter a valid age");
      txtAge.focus();
      txtAge.select();
   }
}
function txtName_onchange()
{
   window.status = "Hi " + document.form1.txtName.value;
}
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<FORM NAME=form1>
   Please enter the following details:
   <P>
   Name:
   <BR>
   <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME=txtName onchange="txtName_onchange()">
   <BR>
   Age:
   <BR>
   <INPUT TYPE="text" NAME=txtAge onblur="txtAge_onblur()" SIZE=3 MAXLENGTH=3>
   <BR>
   <INPUT TYPE="button" VALUE="Check Details" NAME=butCheckForm
      onclick="butCheckForm_onclick()">
</FORM>
</BODY>
</HTML>

After you've entered the text, save the file as ch6_examp4.htm and load it into your web browser.

Type your name into the name text box. When you leave the text box you'll see Hi yourname appear in the status bar at the bottom of the window.

Enter an invalid value into the age text box, such as 'aaaa', and when you try to leave the box it'll tell you of the error and send you back to correct it.

Finally click the Check Details button and both text boxes will be checked to see that you have completed them. If either is empty, you'll get a message telling you to complete the whole form and it'll send you back to the box that's empty.

If everything is filled in correctly, you'll get a message thanking you.

Note that, at the time of writing, this example does not work properly on NN 6.

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