Email validation using jQuery

Question

I\'m new to jQuery and was wondering how to use it to validate email addresses.

Answer 1

I would use the jQuery validation plugin for a few reasons.

You validated, ok great, now what? You need to display the error, handle erasing it when it is valid, displaying how many errors total perhaps? There are lots of things it can handle for you, no need to re-invent the wheel.

Also, another huge benefit is it's hosted on a CDN, the current version at the time of this answer can be found here: http://www.asp.net/ajaxLibrary/CDNjQueryValidate16.ashx This means faster load times for the client.