Jquery Validation: allow only alphabets and spaces

Question

My validation accepts only alphabets. I want allow spaces as well.

$.validator.addMethod("alpha", function(value, element) {
    return this.optional(element) || value == value.match(/^[a-zA-Z]+$/);
});

What change needs to be done here?

Answer 1

Instead of the below regex:

/^[a-zA-Z]+$/

Use this:

/^[a-zA-Z\s]+$/

This will also take the space.

Answer 2

Just leave a space or use \s in your regex:

$.validator.addMethod("alpha", function(value, element) {
    return this.optional(element) || value == value.match(/^[a-zA-Z\s]+$/);
    // --                                    or leave a space here ^^
});