Email validation using jQuery

Question

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

Answer 1

For thoose who want to use a better maintainable solution than disruptive lightyear-long RegEx matches, I wrote up a few lines of code. Thoose who want to save bytes, stick to the RegEx variant :)

This restricts:

• No @ in string
• No dot in string
• More than 2 dots after @
• Bad chars in the username (before @)
• More than 2 @ in string
• Bad chars in domain
• Bad chars in subdomain
• Bad chars in TLD
• TLD - addresses

Anyways, it's still possible to leak through, so be sure you combine this with a server-side validation + email-link verification.

Here's the JSFiddle

 //validate email

var emailInput = $("#email").val(),
    emailParts = emailInput.split('@'),
    text = 'Enter a valid e-mail address!';

//at least one @, catches error
if (emailParts[1] == null || emailParts[1] == "" || emailParts[1] == undefined) { 

    yourErrorFunc(text);

} else {

    //split domain, subdomain and tld if existent
    var emailDomainParts = emailParts[1].split('.');

    //at least one . (dot), catches error
    if (emailDomainParts[1] == null || emailDomainParts[1] == "" || emailDomainParts[1] == undefined) { 

        yourErrorFunc(text); 

     } else {

        //more than 2 . (dots) in emailParts[1]
        if (!emailDomainParts[3] == null || !emailDomainParts[3] == "" || !emailDomainParts[3] == undefined) { 

            yourErrorFunc(text); 

        } else {

            //email user
            if (/[^a-z0-9!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{|}~]/i.test(emailParts[0])) {

               yourErrorFunc(text);

            } else {

                //double @
                if (!emailParts[2] == null || !emailParts[2] == "" || !emailParts[2] == undefined) { 

                        yourErrorFunc(text); 

                } else {

                     //domain
                     if (/[^a-z0-9-]/i.test(emailDomainParts[0])) {

                         yourErrorFunc(text); 

                     } else {

                         //check for subdomain
                         if (emailDomainParts[2] == null || emailDomainParts[2] == "" || emailDomainParts[2] == undefined) { 

                             //TLD
                             if (/[^a-z]/i.test(emailDomainParts[1])) {

                                 yourErrorFunc(text);

                              } else {

                                 yourPassedFunc(); 

                              }

                        } else {

                             //subdomain
                             if (/[^a-z0-9-]/i.test(emailDomainParts[1])) {

                                 yourErrorFunc(text); 

                             } else {

                                  //TLD
                                  if (/[^a-z]/i.test(emailDomainParts[2])) {

                                      yourErrorFunc(text); 

                                  } else {

                                      yourPassedFunc();
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