Question

I need a validation on my TextArea so my TextArea do not contain a specific special character such as ” | ” only.

I was trying something like this:

$('#CustomButton').click(function () {
if $("#CustomQuestionText").val()).indexOf('|') > -1) 
{
alert("The box has special characters. \nThese are not allowed.\n");
}
else
{
 my code here..
}

Any solutions is appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

try this

$('#CustomButton').click(function () {
    if($("#CustomQuestionText").val().search('|')>=0){
    {
    alert("The box has special characters. \nThese are not allowed.\n");
    }
    else
    {
    my code here..
    }
});