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form validator to check for alphabets in a text field

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Hi all
I am new to javascript and trying to validate a form text field only for alphabets. If there are no alphabets, it will alert the user. I have tried to comment onclick in my program because the website is not letting me post it with that

[ December 07, 2007: Message edited by: Vidya Moorthy ]
[ December 07, 2007: Message edited by: Vidya Moorthy ]

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I am new around here and hence didn't know that. Thanks for letting me know.
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onBlur should work (in place of onClick), in order to capture when the user leaves that field.

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To clarify, the onBlur could be on the input/text, not in place of the onClick for the button.

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Also, I *think* that if you do this:

that a true/false returned from formValidator will determine whether the form is posted, which is what you want, correct?

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that a true/false returned from formValidator will determine whether the form is posted, which is what you want, correct?

Yes, that is what I want. Is there any debugger for javascript? I think that the logic is right but I have made a mistake in the typing of the code. I tried installing JSEclipse plugin for the same purpose but it doesn't let me edit html files. I dont know how to do it atleast.
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