Question

Why isn’t this regular expression working? A correct email address does not pass the validation.

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function() {

    var regex = new RegExp(/^([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)@((?:[\w-]+\.)*\w[\w-]{0,66})\.([a-z]{2,6}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?)$/i );

    $('#submit').click(function () {    
        var name = $('input[name=name]');
        var email = $('input[name=email]');
        var website = $('input[name=website]');
        var comment = $('textarea[name=comment]'); 
        if ((!regex.test(email))) {
            email.addClass('hightlight');
            return false;
        } else 
            email.removeClass('hightlight');            
    }
}
}

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Answer 1

You are calling the RegExp test method on a jQuery object instead of a string. Change your conditional from:

if ((!regex.test(email))) { ... }

to:

if ((!regex.test(email.val()))) { ... }

and it should work.