I am validating a text field to allow only letters and spaces.
This is the method I am using:
jQuery.validator.addMethod("lettersonly", function(value, element) {
return this.optional(element) || /^[a-z]+$/i.test(value);
}, "Please enter only letters");
But the regular expression is not allowing spaces between words.
I tried :
/^[a-z ]+$/i.test(value) and /^[a-z\s]+$/i.test(value)
jQuery version - 1.7.1
The regular expression is:
^[a-z\s]*$
[] classes not necessarily imply that all characters are actually used. For example, the above will accept a string consisting of 100 newlines. I'm not sure this is what OP really meant - georg 2012-04-04 18:49
jQuery.validator.addMethod("lettersonly", function(value, element) {
return this.optional(element) || /^[a-zA-Z\s]*$/.test(value);
},"Please enter only letters");
replace this : /^[a-z\s]+$/i
by this :/^[a-zA-Z\s]*$/
I checked It works.
|when they are in a character class? i thought that was the point of the character class - jbabey 2012-04-04 18:24