Best way to validate forms?
 

Does anyone have any tricks/tips on validating forms (no plugins)?

There doesn't really seem to be any universal way to make a javascript function that will suit everything, you almost have to hard code form/input names into the function, which is nasty if you're going to be working with a lot of forms in a project.

I mean I could make something that checks for empty fields or validates an email address but what if I need to see if a <select> listbox value=="this" and if it does then make sure this <input> field=="this".. things would get really messy..

Plus you have to worry about people doing malicious things and getting past your javascript validation so you have to also pass everything through PHP or something.

Tried jquery?

http://www.webreference.com/programm...rm_validation/

jquery has some nice ones

jquery - I guess that's it.

Of course... I'm becoming very familiar with jquery now lol. Still kind of have the same problem though, I guess there will just have to be another function for every form? Gross..

not at all

Ok I have like 20 jquery.com pages open trying to figure out how to do this but none of them work, lets say I have a few of these:
Ok, I need to go through the stuff[] array and find out if ANY of them have "thing" selected. Major confusion.

I think the closest I've came is:
No luck. Tried the inArray()'s and indexOf()'s and they don't seem to return anything either.

I can get the value of a <select> just fine, but since I have many of them stored into an array it's made this a lot more difficult.

LOL I think I finally stumped everyone. I did find a solution though:

Returns true or false.