Javascript Date Validation ( DD/MM/YYYY) & Age Checking

Question

I\'ve started to work on Javascript recently. What I am testing is checking the DoB in valid format. Next step will be checking the age.

What my HTML code includes

Answer 1

I'd utilize the built in Date object to do the validation for me. Even after you switch from - to / you still need to check whether the month is between 0 and 12, the date is between 0 and 31 and the year between 1900 and 2013 for example.

function validateDOB(){

    var dob = document.forms["ProcessInfo"]["txtDOB"].value;
    var data = dob.split("/");
    // using ISO 8601 Date String
    if (isNaN(Date.parse(data[2] + "-" + data[1] + "-" + data[0]))) {
        return false;
    }

    return true;
}

See https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/Date/parse#Example:_Using_parse for more information.

Answer 2

You have used regular expression for this format : DD - MM- YYYY

If you need this format DD/MM/YYYY use

var pattern =/^([0-9]{2})\/([0-9]{2})\/([0-9]{4})$/;

Answer 3

You can use attributes of html tag instead of validation from html input type ="date" can be used instead of validating it. That's the benifits html 5 gives you

Answer 4

If you want to use forward slashes in the format, the you need to escape with back slashes in the regex:

var pattern =/^([0-9]{2})\/([0-9]{2})\/([0-9]{4})$/;

http://jsfiddle.net/P9TER/

Answer 5

If you want to use forward slashes in the format, the you need to escape with back slashes in the regex:

   
var dateformat = /^(0?[1-9]|1[012])[\/\-](0?[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[\/\-]\d{4}$/;

Answer 6

Using pattern and check validate:

var input = '33/15/2000';

var pattern = /^((0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])(\/)(0[13578]|1[02]))|((0[1-9]|[12][0-9])(\/)(02))|((0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[0])(\/)(0[469]|11))(\/)\d{4}$/;

alert(pattern.test(input));