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July 29, 2009
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Formvalidation conditional on checkbox

  • July 29, 2009
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I have a form (payment) where users enter creditcard information. All fields are required.

Except

Some users may choose to have their credit card information collected by phone.

In that case, they check a Checkbox (input name="Later" type="checkbox" id="Later" value="Ph")

How do I make the validation conditional on the checkbox not being checked?

This is my validation Script:

function MM_validateForm() { //v4.0
  if (document.getElementById){
    var i,p,q,nm,test,num,min,max,errors='',args=MM_validateForm.arguments;
    for (i=0; i<(args.length-2); i+=3) { test=args[i+2]; val=document.getElementById(args);
      if (val) { nm=val.name; if ((val=val.value)!="") {
        if (test.indexOf('isEmail')!=-1) { p=val.indexOf('@');
          if (p<1 || p==(val.length-1)) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain an e-mail address.\n';
        } else if (test!='R') { num = parseFloat(val);
          if (isNaN(val)) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain a number.\n';
          if (test.indexOf('inRange') != -1) { p=test.indexOf(':');
            min=test.substring(8,p); max=test.substring(p+1);
            if (num<min || max<num) errors+='- '+nm+' must contain a number between '+min+' and '+max+'.\n';
      } } } else if (test.charAt(0) == 'R') errors += '- '+nm+' is required.\n'; }
    } if (errors) alert('The following error(s) occurred:\n'+errors);
    document.MM_returnValue = (errors == '');
}

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DwFAQ
Participating Frequently
July 29, 2009

Just have the user disable javascript to circumvent the required form fields.