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how to implement javascript to validate the password in a web site?

Can any gurus quickly show me the steps to implement a function to validate the password into a web site with java script? For example, I only need to restrict the password can not be shorter than 6.

Lee

I'd use the onkeydown event and check the string length.

<input type=password onkeydown=checkLength(this.value)>

<input type=submit disabled id=submitButton value=Submit>

<script>
function checkLength(sPassword)
{
  if(sPassword.length>=6)
    document.getElementById("submitButton").disabled = false;
}
</script>

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The code may not be right but I have written from memory and not tested but you get the idea.

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Thanks a lot for the tip/function. I am a newbie for this web dev. Can you tell me where I should place the code in? The more detailed, more better. Appreciate it in advance.

Lee

Copy and paste the second piece of code I did, and save it as an HTML file. Put the file in a virtual folder under IIS and then go to your browser and open the URL to that file and it will work. The code I did is the most basic I could get it. If you need help setting up a website to view the file, that's a different question altogether.

If you haven't got a website/virtual folder to put it in, just put it in a folder and right click and open with Internet Explorer. It might ask you if you want to allow the active content to run but you just say yes.

Lee

Just a minor point, but you've posted in the Javascript, Web Development and Java topic areas. Java and Javascript are completely different languages and not related to each other. Your questions isn't related to Java so it shouldn't be in that zone.

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