Validate email address textbox using JavaScript

Question

I have a requirement to validate an email address entered when a user comes out from the textbox.
I have googled for this but I got form validation JScript; I don\'t wa

Answer 1

Are you also validating server-side? This is very important.

Using regular expressions for e-mail isn't considered best practice since it's almost impossible to properly encapsulate all of the standards surrounding email. If you do have to use regular expressions I'll usually go down the route of something like:

^.+@.+$

which basically checks you have a value that contains an @. You would then back that up with verification by sending an e-mail to that address.

Any other kind of regex means you risk turning down completely valid e-mail addresses, other than that I agree with the answer provided by @Ben.