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Snoey
07-06-2011, 03:38 PM
New to javascript...I'm looking to see if:

1. Is there is a better way to do this? Is this a good way or is there something else I should be doing?

2. I have 8 different fields I have to pair up and check all in sequential order. Example, checking earnings_work1 to earnings_work_occur1, checking earnings_work2 to earnings_work_occur2, etc. Do I need to repeat the script below 8 times or where should I be heading?



<SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript">
function validateForm()
{


if (form1.earnings_work1.value.length != 0)
{
if (form1.earnings_work_occur1.value.length == 0) {
alert("You must enter an occurence.");
return (false);
}

}
}
// End -->
</script>
vwphillips
07-07-2011, 08:48 AM
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">

<head>
<title></title>
<script type="text/javascript">
/*<![CDATA[*/

function validateForm(){
for (var z0=1;z0<5;z0++){
if (form1['earnings_work'+z0].value.length != 0&&form1['earnings_work_occur'+z0].value.length == 0){
alert("You must enter an occurence.");
return (false);
}
}
}

/*]]>*/
</script></head>

<body>
<form name="form1" >
<input name="earnings_work1" /><input name="earnings_work_occur1" />
<br />
<input name="earnings_work2" /><input name="earnings_work_occur2" />
<br />
<input name="earnings_work3" /><input name="earnings_work_occur3" />
<br />
<input name="earnings_work4" /><input name="earnings_work_occur4" />
<br />
<input type="button" name="" value="Check" onmouseup="validateForm()"/>
</form>
</body>

</html>
JoeDaStudd
07-07-2011, 09:24 AM
tbh I'd just use jQuery with the validation plugin/module.