email validation

[verN]

does anyome know how to validate an email adress using javascript as well as names thnaks

[fenway]

Can't remember what all of the rules are -- usually alpha+numeric+underscore/hyphen does the trick, I'm sure the first google hit will have the "perfect" regex.

[paul2463]

function checkMail(email)
{
var filter  = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
if (filter.test(email)) 
{
	alert('YES! Correct email address');
}
else
{ 
	alert('NO! Incorrect email address');
}
}

[fenway]

Don't you need at least one period in the domain?