I am trying to validate a form using ajax.My code (which i am putting below) works for email id validation however i am not able to get it work for confirming password.Please help.Heres the code
reginfo.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="template1.css">
</head>
<script type="text/javascript">
function xmlhttpPost(strURL) {
var xmlHttpReq = false;
var self = this;
// Mozilla/Safari
if (window.XMLHttpRequest) {
self.xmlHttpReq = new XMLHttpRequest();
}
// IE
else if (window.ActiveXObject) {
self.xmlHttpReq = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP");
}
self.xmlHttpReq.open('POST', strURL, true);
self.xmlHttpReq.setRequestHeader('Content-Type', 'application/x-www-form-urlencoded');
self.xmlHttpReq.onreadystatechange = function() {
if (self.xmlHttpReq.readyState == 4) {
updatepage(self.xmlHttpReq.responseText);
}
}
self.xmlHttpReq.send(getquerystring());
}
function getquerystring() {
var
word = document.getElementById("email_id").value;
var word1 = document.getElementById("password").value;
var word2 = document.getElementById("confirm_password").value;
alert(word);
alert(word1);
alert(word2);
word = 'w='+ escape(word);
word1 = 'w1='+ escape(word1);
word2 = 'w2='+ escape(word2); // NOTE: no '?' before querystring
return word;
return word1;
return word2;
}
function updatepage(str){
document.getElementById("result").innerHTML = str;
document.getElementById("password_result").innerHTML = str;
}
</script>
<body>
<div class="header">
<div class="top_info">
</div>
<div class="logo">
<h1><a href="#" title="Centralized Internet Services"><span class="dark">SITE</span>
LOGO</a></h1>
</div>
</div>
<div class="bar">
<ul>
<li class="browse_category">Welcome to SITE NAME</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="reg_center">
<h3>REGISTRATION</h3><br/>
<form name="reg" method="post" >
<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="10" FRAME="box">
<TR>
<TD><font face="Chiller" size="5"><b>First Name:</b>    <input type="text" size="35" name="first_name"></font></TD>
<TD><font face="Chiller" size="5">  <b>LastName:</b>      <input type="text" size="35" name="last_name"></font></TD>
</TR>
<tr></tr>
<TR>
<TD><font face="Chiller" size="5"><b>Gender:</b></font>        <input type="radio" size="35" name="gender">Male
    <font face="Chiller" size="5"><input type="radio" size="35" name="gender">Female </font>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><font face="Chiller" size="5"><b>BirthDate:</b>     <input type="text" size="35" name="date_of_birth"></font></TD>
</TR>
<TR><TD><font face="Chiller" size="5"><b> (mm/dd/yyyy)</b></font></TD></TR>
<TR>
<TD><font face="Chiller" size="5"><b>Email id:</b>       <input type="text" size="34" name="email_id" id="email_id"><div id="result"></TD>
</TR>
<TR>
<TD><font face="Chiller" size="5"><b>Password:</b>      <input type="password" size="34" name="password" id="password"><div id="password_result"></TD>
<TD><font face="Chiller" size="5"><b>Confirm Password:</b><input type="password" size="35" name="confirm_password" id="confirm_password"></TD>
</TR>
<tr></tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2">
<font face="Chiller" size="5"><center><input type="button" value="Register" onclick='JavaScript:xmlhttpPost("regajax.jsp")'></center>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>
</div>
<div class="footer">
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
regajax.jsp
<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
<style type="text/css">
#header{
color:red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<%
String w = request.getParameter("w");
String w1 = request.getParameter("w1");
String w2 = request.getParameter("w2");
String msg =w;
String ter="Invalid email id";
String ter1="Password don't match";
%>
<%=w1%>
<%=w2%>
<%
int atpos=w.indexOf("@");
int dotpos=w.lastIndexOf(".");
if (atpos<1 || dotpos<atpos+2 || dotpos+2>=w.length())
{%>
<%=ter%>
<%}
if (w1!=w2)
{%>
<%=ter1%>
<%} %>
</body>
</html>