[RESOLVED] form validation, validateEmail function

I am having trouble validating with the email field in the form. I believe the problem is in the function validateEmail. I need the email field in the form to check anything less than a full email address, in the format of [email][email protected][/email]. If I type in dave_brown.@unh and you’ll see what I mean. Also, my code isn’t testing for blank text boxes,. You can leave out any information on the text box, and the validation will still fall through. Any ideas on how to fix this?

[CODE]

function validateEmail(fld) {
// var error=””;
// var email = document.demo.email.value;
//email = email.replace(/^s+|s+$/, ”);
var tfld = trim(fld.value); // value of field with whitespace trimmed off
// var emailFilter = /^[^@]+@[^@.]+.[^@]*ww$/ ;
var emailPattern = /^[_a-zA-Z0-9\-]+(.[_a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)*@[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+(.[a-zA-Z0-9\-]+)*(.[a-z]{2,3})$/;
var illegalChars= /[()<>,;:\”[]]/ ;
var email = “[email protected]”;

/*
if (emailPattern.test(tfld)) {
window.alert(“You entered a valid e-mail address.”);
}
else {
window.alert(“You didn’t enter a valid e-mail address”);
fld.style.background = ‘Yellow’; }
/* else {
fld.style.background = ‘White’;
}
*/

if (fld.value == “”) {
fld.style.background = ‘Yellow’;
error = “You didn’t enter an email address.n”;

} else if (emailPattern.test(tfld)) {
fld.style.background = ‘Yellow’;
error = “Name has to be in [email protected]”;

} else if (fld.value.match(illegalChars)) { //test email for illegal characters
fld.style.background = ‘Yellow’;
error = “The email address contains illegal characters.n”;

} else if (!(/^([a-z0-9])([w.-+])+([a-z0-9])@((w)([w-]?)+.)+(com|net|org)$/i.test(email))) {
fld.style.background = ‘Yellow’;
error = “Invalid address, top level domain (has to be .com .net or .org).n”;

} else {
fld.style.background = ‘White’;
}
return error;

}

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my whole code:

[url]http://ceweb.uml.edu/jberg14527/Javascript/formvalidationValidate.html[/url]

can’t find the attached file feature, copy and paste from page source to see how it works.

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