Validate Form Content

You can validate what your visitors enter into fields on your form both when they enter the field itself and immediately before they submit the form. These tutorials will show you how.
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JavaScript Form Processing
Changes to both JavaScript and HTML have affected the way we should be using JavaScript to validate our forms and will affect it further in the future.
JavaScript Form Processing
The modern unobtrusive way of attaching JavaScript to validate a form in your web page doesn't require any changes to the HTML of the form.
JavaScript Form Processing
When we set up unobtrusive form field validation we can easily share validation between fields that need to validate the same way.
JavaScript Form Processing
Once our form validation detects an error we need an unobtrusive way to display the error.
JavaScript Form Processing
Even though older browsers don't support the HTML5 required attribute for form fields we can implement it ourselves in JavaScript.
JavaScript Form Processing
Even though older browsers don't support the HTML5 pattern attribute for form fields we can implement it ourselves in JavaScript.
JavaScript Form Processing
This is a complete example of all the HTML and JavaScript required to unobtrusively attach JavaScript validations to a form. It also includes the code to validate the HTML 5 required and pattern attributes across all browsers.