Validate email with jQuery

Question

I have input name=\"email\" and a button on the page.

How do I validate this input in live for a valid email address? And add some class fo

Answer 1

i used this for mail validation javascript mail code

    function ValidateEmail(inputText)
    {
    var mailformat = /^\w+([\.-]?\w+)*@\w+([\.-]?\w+)*(\.\w{2,3})+$/;
    if(inputText.value.match(mailformat))
    {
    document.form1.text1.focus();
    return true;
    }
    else
    {
    alert("You have entered an invalid email address!");
    document.form1.text1.focus();
    return false;
    }
  }