CHAPTER 7Form Validation and JavaScript
By Stuart Langridge
Most web applications use the <form> tag at one place or another. If your app uses a <form> to gather information, you'll probably want to try and validate that information to make sure that what the user is filling in is reasonable in some way. Hence the convention that an * next to a bit of a form means "this part is mandatory; you must fill it in." It's equally important that if you want the information you receive to be in a certain format you have your app enforce that format. This is what validation is all about: having your app check what the user types to confirm that it's what you were expecting. If you're asking users for the number of chickens they own, it's a good idea to ...
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