Question

I tried to write a regular expression to work with the position-absolute jQuery validation plugin to give error if the string is left empty OR its a invalid URL. It works well for the URl but doesn’t give error if a empty string is there . Here’s the regex

 "regex": /^\S$|^(http[s]?:\/\/){0,1}(www\.){0,1}[a-zA-Z0-9\.\-]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,5}[\.]{0,1}/,

Can somebody tell what’s wrong in the regex?

EDIT:

I’m using this plugin for jQuery validation

Demo: Go to this URL and in the URL validtion section, remove HTTP and see the error messages

http://www.position-relative.net/creation/formValidator/demos/demoValidators.html

When I add required and URL validators together, it shoots 2 errors. But with only URL
validator, it doesn’t say that its a Invalid URL. I just need 1 error for both Empty and
Invalid URL.

https://github.com/posabsolute/jQuery-Validation-Engine

Thanks

Answer 1

You can set the same generic error message for all errors using data-errormessage, so regardless of whether the field is empty or has an invalid value you will get the same message.