Question

I might just be using the wrong keywords on Google, but what I have in mind is:

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|    What is your mailbox?       |
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|    [       ]@mail.example.org  |
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|        [OK]      [Cancel]      |
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The idea being that the input field is followed right behind by the mail server name, to help avoid instances where:

1. If I don’t make it follow right behind, the user puts in the whole thing,

2. If I default it to “[e-mail]” they delete the server name.

In either case, it’s not too big a deal, as I will know that if the returned value does have the server, to remove it and if doesn’t, I know what server it belongs to, but I think this visual aid will be a better user experience and lower the amount of validation worries I tend to get.

Answer 1

You can set a default value in the standard Javascript prompts, but you can’t do much more than that. I would just check afterwards and strip or add the server part as needed.