Question

I want to validate text-boxes in JQuery bit I want to use regex for this. As i am new to JQuery, can someone suggest me how regex can be used in JQuery to validate text string (where for e.g. regex is something like ^(?:[\\w\\s-])++$)?

Answer 1

Javascript regex functionality does not require JQuery, it can be used whether you have JQuery loaded or not.

Here are two great resources for javascript regex:

http://www.regular-expressions.info/javascript.html

http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_obj_regexp.asp

To fit this into JQuery:

if (/your regex/.test($("#textbox").val()))
{
    // Valid
}
else
{
    // Invalid
}