Email validation using jQuery

Question

I'm new to jQuery and was wondering how to use it to validate email addresses.

Answer 1

You can use regular old javascript for that:

function isEmail(email) {   var regex = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_.+-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;   return regex.test(email); } 

Answer 2

jQuery Function to Validate Email

I really don’t like to use plugins, especially when my form only has one field that needs to be validated. I use this function and call it whenever I need to validate an email form field.

 function validateEmail($email) {   var emailReg = /^([\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/;   return emailReg.test( $email ); } 

and now to use this

if( !validateEmail(emailaddress)) { /* do stuff here */ } 

Cheers!