We’ve all seen web applications that require the user to do a repetitive task. Unfortunately, programmers often ignore how unnatural it is to go through a multitude of form fields, how unclean the design looks, and how hard-coding the number of elements one can enter at a single time limits the use of your application. Stick with keeping it simple, and keeping it simple means keeping things clean and intuitive.
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Jason Lancaster
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Adam Douglass
Form validation is vital to every web based application, and too often I’ve seen it implemented page-by-page. Custom code blocks to check for email address formats, telephone numbers, social security numbers, etc.
If you need client-side form validation and you can rely on javascript, I highly recommend Andrew Tetlaw’s “
Really easy field validation.” It does require
prototype.js and of course, java script enabled browsing.I’ve written a few additional validators that I’ll post sometime soon for anyone that might be interested.
