required-field – Tarik Billa

Is it possible to configure a required field to ignore white space?

May 5, 2023 by Tarik

Use the pattern attribute combined with the required attribute. And be sure to include a title attribute as well, since most browsers insert the title text into the validation pop-up bubble. <input required pattern=”.*\S+.*” title=”This field is required”> The .*\S+.* pattern requires at least one non-whitespace character, but also allows whitespace characters (spaces, tabs, carriage … Read more

HTML required readonly input in form

April 2, 2023 by Tarik

I had same requirement as yours and I figured out an easy way to do this. If you want a “readonly” field to be “required” also (which is not supported by basic HTML), and you feel too lazy to add custom validation, then just make the field read only using jQuery this way: IMPROVED form … Read more