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HTML
<input type="text" name="ent" id="ent">
<input type="submit" name="submit" id="submit">
<div id="status"></div>
JavaScript
$(document).ready(function(){
function validateURL(textval) {
var urlregex = new RegExp( "^(http|https|ftp)\://([a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+(\:[a-zA-Z0-9\.&%\$\-]+)*@)*((25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]{1}[0-9]{2}|[1-9]{1}[0-9]{1}|[1-9])\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]{1}[0-9]{2}|[1-9]{1}[0-9]{1}|[1-9]|0)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]{1}[0-9]{2}|[1-9]{1}[0-9]{1}|[1-9]|0)\.(25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[0-1]{1}[0-9]{2}|[1-9]{1}[0-9]{1}|[0-9])|([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)*[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.(com|edu|gov|int|mil|net|org|biz|arpa|info|name|pro|aero|coop|museum|[a-zA-Z]{2}))(\:[0-9]+)*(/($|[a-zA-Z0-9\.\,\?\'\\\+&%\$#\=~_\-]+))*$");
return urlregex.test(textval);
}
// assign whatever is in the inputbox to a variable
//this is if they paste the url from somewhere
$("#ent").live('input paste', function() {
var url = $("#ent").val();
if(validateURL(url)) {
$("#ent").css("background-color","green");
$("#status").append("Valid URL");
$("#submit").attr('disabled', 'disabled');
}
});
});