hey all. i'm trying to validate the user inputted email address for www.eddiewalter.com/staging/free-pre-approval.aspx with the following code and it doesn't seem to be working.

 
 
<asp:RegularExpressionValidator runat="server" id="regexpEmail" ControlToValidate="email"  ValidationExpression="^([a-zA-Z0-9_\-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([a-zA-Z0-9\-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$ " ErrorMessage = "Your email must be in the format: username@domain.com" Display="Dynamic" />

i've taken that validation tag out of the page because it wouldn't work. any ideas?

And "wouldn't work" means what exactly??

yeah i know. i'm not always good at descriptive descriptions. =)

when i clicked the submit button, it would not validate the email address as valid even when it was a valid email address. i solved it by changing the name of the textbox from "email" to "email2"

Originally Posted by edzdallas79

yeah i know. i'm not always good at descriptive descriptions. =)

when i clicked the submit button, it would not validate the email address as valid even when it was a valid email address. i solved it by changing the name of the textbox from "email" to "email2"

Nice solution, but i dont think the name of the textbox is the problem ;-)

Originally Posted by ara

Nice solution, but i dont think the name of the textbox is the problem ;-)

Well, since it cured the problem, it obviously was!

email may be a reserved word in the .net validator code