Archive for July, 2008

On more than one occasion these characters  have turned up just when everything else seems fine.  Like a tiny weeney scratch on a new car, one that only you know about, these little bastards turn up and take the rest of the day to diagnose. 
So what  is for?

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To remove stuff such as punction and spaces (or anything you want) from a text box before sending to the server for validation you can use code like this, first the HTML:-

<input
name="name"
onblur="this.value = entrycheck(this.value)"
type="text"
size="20">

And then the following Javascript will remove invalid characters when the user moves to another field:-

<script type="text/javascript">
function namecheck(theInput) [...]