Question

We have HTML form which will allow french alphabets. So we have added validation to check only alphabets and not numbers. We have used regular expression to achieve this using
javascript validation. I have pasted the regex code below for reference.

I have used below options to check alphabets that include french alphabets

[^A-Za-zA-ÿ\\s]

[^A-ÿ\\s]

It works fine in all modern browsers. But in ie6 it is not working.

In IE6 i got below error message:
“Invalid range in character set”

Is there any other solution to fix the above problem. Also please let me know if u need any other details.

Answer 1

Detect browser version and write the regex (for user can enter characters only and not numbers) in reverse like [0-9] for ie6.

if ($.browser.msie && $.browser.version.substr(0,1)<7) {
      regex here
}