I am new to JavaScript. I have a form in an html file that has some text fields. When someone click the submit button, a JavaScript function is called to do some work (in this case, a simple alert). It works as I wanted, when I fill the text fields and click the submit button it calls the JavaScript function and the function shows an alert. However, the problem is, when a user clicks the submit button keeping some fields empty and/or not following the pattern of an email address, it calls the JavaScript function (even though HTML 5 has shown warnings in the form). I want the JavaScript function should only be called if there are no HTML warnings, I mean no empty fields and the user must follow the email pattern. Thank you for your help.
HTML code:
<form id="myForm" method="post" role="form" class="contactForm">
<input type="text" name="name" class="form-control" id="name" placeholder="Your Name" data-rule="minlen:4" data-msg="Please enter at least 4 chars" />
<input type="email" class="form-control" name="email" id="email" placeholder="Your Email" data-rule="email" data-msg="Please enter a valid email" />
<textarea class="form-control" name="message" id="message" rows="5" data-rule="required" data-msg="Please write something" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
<button id="submitFormData" onclick="SubmitFormData();" type="submit" class="button button-a button-big button-rouded">Send Message</button>
</form>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script src="alert.js"></script>
Javascript Code (alert.js):
function SubmitFormData() {
var name = $("#name").val();
var email = $("#email").val();
var message = $("#message").val();
alert("SHOW SOMETHING HERE");
}
you can use required attribute in the input and one more thing you can call the SubmitFormData() onsubmit form here's your modified code :
function SubmitFormData() {
var name = $("#name").val();
var email = $("#email").val();
var message = $("#message").val();
alert("SHOW SOMETHING HERE");
}<form id="myForm" method="post" role="form" class="contactForm" onsubmit="SubmitFormData();">
<input type="text" name="name" class="form-control" id="name" placeholder="Your Name" data-rule="minlen:4" data-msg="Please enter at least 4 chars" required/>
<input type="email" class="form-control" name="email" id="email" placeholder="Your Email" data-rule="email" data-msg="Please enter a valid email" required/>
<textarea class="form-control" name="message" id="message" rows="5" data-rule="required" data-msg="Please write something" placeholder="Message" required></textarea>
<button id="submitFormData" type="submit" class="button button-a button-big button-rouded">Send Message</button>
</form>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>Here is the best working solution for what you want to achieve by using the form validation JS plugin.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/jquery.validation/1.16.0/jquery.validate.min.js"></script>
<style>
form label {
display: inline-block;
width: 100px;
}
form div {
margin-bottom: 10px;
}
.error {
color: red;
margin-left: 5px;
}
label.error {
display: inline;
}
</style>
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
$('form[id="second_form"]').validate({
rules: {
name: 'required',
user_email: {
required: true,
email: true,
},
message: {
required: true,
}
},
messages: {
name: 'This field is required',
user_email: 'Enter a valid email',
message: 'This field is required'
},
submitHandler: function(form) {
form.submit();
}
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h2>Example 2:</h2>
<form id="second_form" method="post" action="">
<div>
<label for="name">Name:</label>
<input type="text" name="name" class="form-control" id="name" placeholder="Your Name" data-rule="minlen:4" data-msg="Please enter at least 4 chars" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="email">Email</label>
<input type="email" class="form-control" name="user_email" id="user_email" placeholder="Your Email" data-rule="email" data-msg="Please enter a valid email" />
</div>
<div>
<label for="message">message:</label>
<textarea class="form-control" name="message" id="message" rows="5" data-rule="required" data-msg="Please write something" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
</div>
<div>
<input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>The easiest way was to provide an HTML only solution based on a form element's required attribute since the browser will take over the validation of required elements also by their element/control type ...
<form id="myForm" method="post" role="form" class="contactForm" action="https://stackoverflow.com/">
<input
required
type="text" name="name" id="name"
class="form-control" placeholder="Your Name"
/>
<input
required
type="email" name="email" id="email"
class="form-control" placeholder="Your Email"
/>
<textarea
required
name="message" id="message"
class="form-control" rows="5" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
<button
type="submit" id="submitFormData"
class="button button-a button-big button-rouded">Send Message</button>
</form>A generic custom validation is much more complex and labour-intensive ...
function validateControValue(elm) {
let isValid = true;
const elmType = elm.type;
if (elmType !== 'button' && elmType !== 'submit') {
const $elm = $(elm);
const isEmpty = ($elm.val().trim() === '');
if (isEmpty) {
$elm.val('');
$elm.addClass('validation-error');
} else {
$elm.removeClass('validation-error');
}
// non empty is valid, empty is invalid.
isValid = !isEmpty;
}
return isValid;
}
function handleValidFormSubmit(/* evt */) {
const isValidSubmitData = Array
.from(this.elements)
.every(validateControValue);
return isValidSubmitData;
}
function main() {
$('#myForm').on('submit', handleValidFormSubmit)
}
$(document)
.ready(main);.validation-error {
border: 1px solid #f00;
}<form id="myForm" method="post" role="form" class="contactForm" action="https://stackoverflow.com/">
<input
type="text" name="name" id="name"
class="form-control" placeholder="Your Name"
/>
<input
type="email" name="email" id="email"
class="form-control" placeholder="Your Email"
/>
<textarea
name="message" id="message"
class="form-control" rows="5" placeholder="Message"></textarea>
<button
type="submit" id="submitFormData"
class="button button-a button-big button-rouded">Send Message</button>
</form>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<!-- <script src="alert.js"></script> //-->