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**Kor** · Feb 19, 2004, 04:46 AM

If this is the whole code I wonder that it will works even with a simple if statement... To validate you have either to verify each element of the string or to delete the unwanted character onkeyup. In fact you better do both.

The RegExp will help you a lot, and the script will be much shorter an wiser (some old folks here said so...)

**Willy Duitt** · Feb 19, 2004, 06:23 AM

Actually there is much wrong with that code. The alert is not closed or delimited and the validation will fail because -1 indicates that it does not exist.

For that validation to work it would need to look like this:
if((str.indexOf("*") > -1)||(str.indexOf("@") > -1))

However as Kor suggested, regular expressions would be better.
Try this:

Code:

<script type="text/javascript">
  function chkStr(field){
   var str = field.value;
   var reg = /@|#|&|\^|\*/;
    if(str.match(reg)){
     alert('invalid character');
     field.value = str.substring(0,str.length-1);
    }
  }
</script>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<form>
<textarea onkeyup="chkStr(this)"></textarea>
</form>

.....Willy

**Vidishasharma** · Feb 19, 2004, 08:10 AM

thanks

thanks a lot that piece of code helped me out

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validtion no running successfully.Pls help

validtion no running successfully.Pls help

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