jQuery 2.0 Development Cookbook

Chapter 5. Form Handling

In this chapter, we will look at how to create robust and attractive web forms with animation, validation, and user feedback. We will cover:

• Implementing basic form validation
• Adding number validation
• Adding credit card number validation
• Adding date validation
• Adding e-mail address validation
• Implementing live form validation
• Adding a password strength indicator
• Adding anti-spam measures
• Implementing input character restrictions

Introduction

Collecting user data is a basic function of many websites and web applications, from simple data collection techniques such as registration or login information, to more complex scenarios such as payment or billing information. It is important that only relevant and complete information is collected ...