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Form Validation using JavaScript?

I'm trying to use form validation using JavaScript, however I don't seem to get any response, not even an alert even though it's there.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

    <head>
        <title>Example Form</title>
        <script type="text/javascript">
            function CheckForBlank() {

                if(document.getElementById('name').value="") {
                    alert("enter something valid");
                    return false;
                }
            }
        </script>
    </head>
    <body>

        <form method="post" action="2013.php" onsubmit="return CheckForBlank();">
            Name: <input type="text" name="name" id="name"/>
            Age: <input type="text" name="age" id="age"/>
            Email: <input type="text" name="email" id="email"/>
            <p><input type="submit" value="Submit" /></p>
        </form>
    </body>
</html>
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GDesigns Avatar asked Feb 11 '23 09:02

GDesigns


1 Answers

use === or == for condition checking in javascript.

if(document.getElementById('name').value === ""){
   alert("enter something valid");
   return false;
}
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Issac Johnson Avatar answered Feb 12 '23 23:02

Issac Johnson