Coding for spotting errors in data entered

mightymanofexcellence · Joined: 09 Nov 2007 Posts: 2

I am making a webpage and I am adding a section where people can post their demographics and I am wanting it to notify them with a alert when something is entered incorrectly. Can someone help me please? Is there a way to do this with javascripting?

Here is the code I have so far:

<html>
<head>
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
</head>

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"><SCRIPT TYPE="text/javascript">

</SCRIPT>

<FORM ACTION="../cgi-bin/mycgi.pl" METHOD=POST>
<p>Name </p>
<p>
<input type=TEXT name="realname" value="" size="90">
<br>
</p>
<p> </p>
<p>Mailing Address </p>
<p>
<input type=TEXT MAILING ADDRESS name="realname2" value="" size="90">
</p>
<p>
<input type="text" mailing="MAILING" address="ADDRESS" name="realname2" size="90" value="">
</p>
<p>
<input type="text" mailing="MAILING" address="ADDRESS" name="realname2" size="90" value="">
</p>
<p>E-Mail Address
<input type=TEXT name="realname2" size="60">
<br>
Phone Number
<input type=TEXT MAILING ADDRESS name="realname2" value="" size="20">
</p>
<p>
<input type=SUBMIT value="submit" name="SUBMIT">
</FORM>

</body>
</html>

camoman666 · Posted: Fri Nov 23, 2007 5:37 pm

You CAN do this with JS, but I would advise against it. You have CGI so why not use it, it would be just as easy PLUS people can't turn it off. The code would be very similar, although I can't help you on the specifics because I am not that good in CGI but use something Server-Side not Client-Side.