Question

I’m trying to create a rule that checks is the email host is Hotmail so I can show a message asking to check their spam folder (most of my messages go to that folder when people use Hotmail).

Here’s what I’ve done so far:

       jQuery.validator.addMethod("isHotmail", function(value, element) {
           var email = $("#email").val();
           var emailHost = email.split('@')[1].split('.')[0];
           if(emailHost=='hotmail'){return true}
}, "* you are using Hotmail, please check your spam folder");

And

 rules: {
         email: {
           required:true, email: true, isHotmail : true
         }
.
.

This is not working, nothing happens if I enter a Hotmail email address, and I suspect that it is because of the return statement.

Can anyone please give me a hand with this rule?

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

You need to return false when the input contains ‘hotmail’. So instead of

if(emailHost=='hotmail'){return true}

use

if(emailHost=='hotmail')
{
return false;
}
return true; //for when the input does not contain hotmail

See it in action on jsfiddle here