Question

I am Developing a web application. For inputting values i am using an auto complete which gets its data from the database.

$(document).ready(function hello(){
    var myVar1 = <%=request.getAttribute("variable1")%>
      $("input#assignedbyid").autocomplete({
    source: myVar1
      });
});

The above given example gives me a set of values which are picked up from a database using JDBC and json code. AT any point of time the value in myvar1 looks like this::

["Kapil","Mayur","Abhinav","Chandan"]

Which comes as a source for auto complete values.
My html code where my input tag onfocus calls up the function hello().

<div id="lets"><input dojoType="dijit.form.ValidationTextBox" id="assignedbyid" name="assignedbyname"  required="true" onfocus="hello();" onblur="hi();"></div>

Now i want to have a validation check which checks that value entered by the user comes from auto complete values only("Kapil","Mayur","Abhinav","Chandan") and not any other value. I have this Code where in if no value is entered the text box shakes up(onblur="hi();"). in else part i want to that checking to be done.

<script type="text/javascript"> 
 function periodical() {
            $('#lets').effect('shake', { times: 5 }, 200);
        };
          $(document).ready(function() {
            $('#lets').hide().css('display','').fadeIn(600);
                }); 
        function hi(){
            var dude = dojo.byId("assignedbyid").value;

            if(dude==""){
                periodical();}
            else{

            if(dude)
                myVar1

                alert("value entered");}
                };
</script>

My else part is incomplete for the time being. how can this be done ?. Thanks .

Answer 1

var V = $("#myInput").val();
if (V=="Kapil"||V=="Mayur"||V=="Abhinav"||V=="Chandan") {
    //do something
}

or

var V = $("#myInput").val();
var myArray = ["Kapil","Mayur","Abhinav","Chandan"];

if ($.inArray(V, myArray)!=-1) {
    //do something
}