The value is not trimmed

[OmarZeidan]

Hello Teacher,

I added the following small jQuery utility to your source code I have, hope what I did is completely true.

The line I change :

return emailRegExp.test($.trim($input.val())); // I added $.trim to handle the white space entered by the user.

The issue scenario:

When the user enter some spaces before adding a valid email address the validation will return false! even if the address is true!

[chalkers]

Hi Omar,

If the form is submitted it could still be invalid on the server-side having a different validation implementation.

So we could do a couple of things add an option to say to ignore whitespace, or hijack the keyboard input and not allow users to put in a space.

What do you think would be best for the user experience?

Andrew

[OmarZeidan]

Hi Andrew,

I guess what better for the user experience, that when the user try to add any space, a small red message appear telling him : *(For valid email address, No spaces are allowed.) This will put us on the safe side and it`s better than prevent any space without any message! is that right? or maybe you do have much better solution.

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But still need another validation on the server-side, in case the user turned off the JavaScript for some reasons.

Thank you so much for your reply and care!

Omar.