Advanced Form Validation - Continued

A complete form validation example

Notice how:

We've created a generic validateRequired function which can be use to check if an input has a value, this stops us from repeating ourselves.

<!doctype html>
<html>
<head>
    <script src="main.js"></script>
    <meta charset="UTF-8">
    <title>Untitled Document</title>

</head>
<body onload="main()">

    <form id="logInForm">
        <input type="text" name="userName" placeholder="User Name">
        <input type="text" name="password" type="password" placeholder="Password">
        <input type="submit" value="login">
    </form>

</body>

HTML

function main() {

      var logInForm = document.getElementById("logInForm");
      logInForm.userName.addEventListener("blur", validateName);
     logInForm.password.addEventListener("blur", validatePassword);

    //validate form on submit
    logInForm.addEventListener('submit', validateForm);

}

// submit event validation 
function validateForm(event) {

    //if any of the form feilds are not valid prvent the form from submitting 
    if(validateName()  == false || validatePassword()  == false) {
        event.preventDefault();
    }

    event.preventDefault();


}

//generic required validation fucntion 
function  validateRequired(element) {

     if(element.value == "") {
        element.style.backgroundColor = "red";
        return false; 
     } else {
        element.style.backgroundColor = "";
        return true; 
     }
}


// validate name
function validateName(event) {
     var logInForm = document.getElementById("logInForm");
     return validateRequired(logInForm.userName);
}

//validate password
function validatePassword(event) {
     var logInForm = document.getElementById("logInForm");
     return validateRequired(logInForm.password);
}

javaScript