//from: http://rosskendall.com/blog/web/javascript-function-to-check-an-email-address-conforms-to-rfc822 function isRFC822ValidEmail(sEmail) { var sQtext = '[^\\x0d\\x22\\x5c\\x80-\\xff]'; var sDtext = '[^\\x0d\\x5b-\\x5d\\x80-\\xff]'; var sAtom = '[^\\x00-\\x20\\x22\\x28\\x29\\x2c\\x2e\\x3a-\\x3c\\x3e\\x40\\x5b-\\x5d\\x7f-\\xff]+'; var sQuotedPair = '\\x5c[\\x00-\\x7f]'; var sDomainLiteral = '\\x5b(' + sDtext + '|' + sQuotedPair + ')*\\x5d'; var sQuotedString = '\\x22(' + sQtext + '|' + sQuotedPair + ')*\\x22'; var sDomain_ref = sAtom; var sSubDomain = '(' + sDomain_ref + '|' + sDomainLiteral + ')'; var sWord = '(' + sAtom + '|' + sQuotedString + ')'; var sDomain = sSubDomain + '(\\x2e' + sSubDomain + ')*'; var sLocalPart = sWord + '(\\x2e' + sWord + ')*'; var sAddrSpec = sLocalPart + '\\x40' + sDomain; // complete RFC822 email address spec var sValidEmail = '^' + sAddrSpec + '$'; // as whole string var reValidEmail = new RegExp(sValidEmail); if (reValidEmail.test(sEmail)) { return true; } return false; } /* John Resig's templating utility - http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-micro-templating/ Not updated code to resolve issue with single quotes from: http://www.west-wind.com/Weblog/posts/509108.aspx define templates inside