JS Regex url validation

Question

I tried to validate url with or without http No matter what i did the function return false. I checked my regex string in this site: http://regexr.com/ And its seen as i expect.

Answer 1

Try this code.

function CheckURL(fieldId, alertMessage) {
    var url = fieldId.value;
    if(url !== "")
    {
        if (url.match(/(http(s)?:\/\/.)?(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/g) !== null)
            return true;
        else {
            alert(alertMessage);
            fieldId.focus();
            return false;
        }
    }
}

var website = document.getElementById('Website');
if (!CheckURL(website, "Enter a valid website address")) {
    return false;
}