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10.29.07
Spry's Confirmation Validation
 By Raymond Camden
A few days ago I blogged about Spry's password validation.
It is an impressive little widget giving you nice control over how strong your password needs to be. Today I'm going to demonstrate the confirmation widget.
As you can guess - this is simply a widget that will enforce validation of a password. This widget can either work with a simple password field, or with Spry's password widget. Since I assume most folks will want to use both, my example will follow that format. As with the other widgets I covered - you include a JavaScript and CSS file:
And lastly you create a JavaScript variable that enables the validation:
Two things to note here. The first value is the ID of the confirmation span. The second value is the ID of the form field you are validating. Even though I'm using a Spry widget, I need to point to the field's ID value, not the span around it. As you can guess - the confirmRequiredMsg will be fired when the user doesn't enter anything, while the confirmInvalidMsg will fire if the passwords don't match at all.
Taking the last example from the previous post, here is a file that does both strict password checking as well as validation checking:
Continue reading this article.
About the Author:
Raymond Camden, ray@camdenfamily.com
http://ray.camdenfamily.com
Raymond Camden is Vice President of Technology for roundpeg, Inc. A long
time ColdFusion user, Raymond has worked on numerous ColdFusion books
and is the creator of many of the most popular ColdFusion community web
sites. He is an Adobe Community Expert, user group manager, and the
proud father of three little bundles of joy.
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