I have form and form text field which generates dynamically using JSP. And I'm using Jquery validation but want to add functionlaty to prevent duplicate entry in the form.
E.g.
<form name="myForm" id="myForm">
<input type="text" name="text1" id="text1">
<input type="text" name="text2" id="text2">
<input type="text" name="text3" id="text3">
=
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N number of form fields
<input type="text" name="textn" id="textn">
</form>
I want to check if there is any duplicate value entered in the textfield using jQuery validation.
Something like this should work:
$(function(){
$('input[name^="text"]').change(function() {
var $current = $(this);
$('input[name^="text"]').each(function() {
if ($(this).val() == $current.val() && $(this).attr('id') != $current.attr('id'))
{
alert('duplicate found!');
}
});
});
});
In a nutshell, how this works is: Whenever a user enters something into a text box, JQuery loops through all the text boxes in the form and compares their values with the value that the user just entered, if a duplicate value is found, then alert the user.