jQuery Simple Example

by bhumi

HTML

<script src="//www.addressfinder.co.nz/assets/v2/widget.js"></script>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form action="#" method="post" id="test">

  <fieldset>

    <legend>Contact information</legend>


    <div>
      <label for="name">Name:</label>
      <input type="text" name="name" id="name" />
    </div>

    <div>
      <label for="lastname">LastName:</label>
      <input type="text" name="lastname" id="lastname"/>
    </div>

    <div>
      <label for="email">Email:</label>
      <input type="email" name="email" id="email" />

    </div>

    <div>
      <label for="message">Message:</label>
      <textarea id="message" name="message" cols="30" rows="15"></textarea>
    </div>





    <p><input type="submit" name="send" id="send" value="Send" /></p>

  </fieldset>

CSS

body {
  background: #fff;
  color: #333;
  font: 76% Verdana, sans-serif;
}

form {
  margin: 1em 0 0 2em;
  width: 90%;
}

fieldset {
  margin: 0;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  padding-bottom: 1em;
}

legend {
  font-weight: bold;
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

label {
  float: left;
  width: 5em;
  padding-right: 2em;
  font-weight: bold;
}

div {
  margin-bottom: 30px;
}

input {
  font: 1em Verdana, sans-serif;
}

fieldset ul li input {
  float: left;
  width: 120px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
}

textarea {
  width: 300px;
  height: 200px;
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  font: 1em Verdana, sans-serif;
}

form p {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0.4em 0 0 7em;
}

form p input {
  background: #666;
  color: #fff;
  font-weight: bold;
}

div.error {
  clear: left;
  margin-left: 5.3em;
  color: red;
  padding-right: 1.3em;
  height: 100%;
  padding-bottom: 0.3em;
  line-height: 1.3;
}

.input-error {
  background: #ff9;
  border: 1px solid red;
}

JavaScript

var Validator = function(form) {

    this.form = $(form);

    var Elements = {
        name: {
            selector: $('input[type=text]'),
            reg: /^[a-zA-Z]{2,20}$/
        },

        email: {
            selector: $('input[type=email]'),
            reg: /^[a-z-0-9_+.-]+\@([a-z0-9-]+\.)+[a-z0-9]{2,7}$/i
        },

        message: {
            selector: $('textarea'),
            reg: /^\s+$/
        }
    };

    var handleError = function(element, message, v1) {
        if (v1.selector.length > 1) {
            var ss = v1.selector;
            
            $(ss).each(function(i, v) {
            $(v).removeClass('input-error');
            if($(v).val() == ''){
              $(v).addClass('input-error');
              var $err_msg = $(v).parent('div');
              if($(v).parent('div').find('.error').length == 0) {
                    var error = $('<div class="error"></div>').text(message);
               }else{
                    $(v).parent('div').find('.error').text('');
                    var error = $(v).parent('div').find('.error').text(message);
                    $('.error').show();
               }
               error.appendTo($err_msg);
             }else{
               $(v).siblings('.error').text('')
             }
             $(v).keyup(function() {
                 $(error).fadeOut(1000, function() {
                     element.removeClass('input-error');
                });
             });
          });
        } else {
            element.addClass('input-error');
            var $err_msg = element.parent('div');
            if(element.parent('div').find('.error').length == 0) {
                  var error = $('<div class="error"></div>').text(message);
             }else{
                  element.parent('div').find('.error').text('');
                  var error = element.parent('div').find('.error').text(message);
                  $('.error').show();
             }
            error.appendTo($err_msg);
           ...