Easy Form Validation With jQuery

In this tutorial we will learn a complete guide of A simple jQuery form validation, You can add these files to your projects or files via package managers like Bower or NPM. You can also just directly get a CDN link to the files and add them to a script tag on your webpage. Since this is a jQuery-based plugin, you will also need to add a link to the jQuery library.

The benefits of this jquery validate plugin is easy to use , easy to handle,and also you can add your custom messages.

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.19.2/jquery.validate.js"></script>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>J query simple form validation</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/css/bootstrap.min.css">
  <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.5.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
  <script type="text/javascript" src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery-validate/1.19.2/jquery.validate.js"></script>
  <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/popper.js/1.16.0/umd/popper.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/4.5.0/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
  <style> 
body {
  background-color: #EAFAF1;
}
form .error {
  color: #ff0000;
}
</style>
 </head>
<body>
<form action="" method="get" name="formval" id="formval">
  <h2 align="center">J -Query Form Validation</h2>
  <div class="container">
  <div class="form-row">
    <div class="form-group col-md-6">
      <label for="inputEmail4">Name</label>
      <input type="text" class="form-control" name="name" placeholder="Enter your name">
    </div>
    <div class="form-group col-md-6">
      <label for="inputPassword4">Email</label>
      <input type="email" class="form-control" name="email" placeholder="Enter your email">
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="form-group">
    <label for="inputAddress">Address</label>
    <input type="text" class="form-control" name="address1" placeholder="Enter your address">
  </div>
  <div class="form-group">
    <label for="inputAddress2">Address 2</label>
    <input type="text" class="form-control" name="address2" placeholder="Enter your secondary address">
  </div>
  <div class="form-row">
    <div class="form-group col-md-6">
      <label for="inputCity">City</label>
      <input type="text" class="form-control" name="city">
    </div>
    
    <div class="form-group col-md-2">
      <label for="inputZip">Zip</label>
      <input type="text" class="form-control" name="zipcode">
    </div>
  </div>
  <div class="form-group">
    <div class="form-check">
      <input class="form-check-input" type="checkbox" name="checkbox">
      <label class="form-check-label" for="gridCheck">
        Check me out
      </label>
    </div>
  </div>
  <button type="submit" class="btn btn-primary">Sign in</button>
 </div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
<script>
	// Wait for the DOM to be ready
$(function() {
  $("form[name='formval']").validate({
    // Specify validation rules
    rules: {
      name: {
        required: true,
       },
      email: {
        required: true,
        email: true
      },
      address1: {
        required: true,
       },
      address2: {
        required: true,
       },
      city: {
        required: true,
       },
      zipcode: {
        required: true,
       }
    },
    // Specify validation error messages
    messages: {
      name: "Please enter your name",
      email: {
        required: "Please enter your email",
        
      },
      address1: {
        required: "Please enter your address",
        
      },
      address2: {
        required: "Please enter secondary address",
        
      },
      city: {
        required: "Please enter your city",
        
      },
      zipcode: {
        required: "Please enter your Zip",
        
      },
     },

    submitHandler: function(form) {
      form.submit();
    }
  });
});
</script>

Output :

So in this tutorial we learned A simple jQuery form validation

Read also : Add multiple dynamic text fields with j query

Hi, My name is Gaurav Pandey. I'm a Laravel developer, owner of 8Bityard. I live in Uttarakhand - India and I love to write tutorials and tips that can help other developers. I am a big fan of PHP, Javascript, JQuery, Laravel, WordPress. connect@8bityard.com

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