How can I keep html code out of my forms?

I've a mail form on my website and I'm wondering how I can validate what is put into the message part of my form so that I can keep html code out of it.

Can you help me with some code to strip out html code from my form?How can I keep html code out of my forms?
use javascript to exclude special characters like %26lt; and %26gt;. Check out the source. Ignore the message the guy wrote, the javascript you see should work. Just tweak it to your needs.How can I keep html code out of my forms?
Use the jquery validation plug in, I use it on every form I code.

It spits out nice messages if people don't fill out inputs properly.



http://docs.jquery.com/Plugins/Validatio



Add the latest jquery and the validation plugin in your header:



%26lt;script type=';text/javascript'; src=';http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/lib?br>
%26lt;script type=';text/javascript'; src=';jquery.validate.min.js';%26gt;%26lt;/script%26gt;



Then add the script to suit your specific form, for example:



%26lt;script id=';demo'; type=';text/javascript';%26gt;

$(document).ready(function() {

$(';#yourFormID';).validate({

rules: {

Name: ';required';,

Company: ';required';,

Title: ';required';,

Phone: ';required';,

Email: {

required: true,

email: true

},

Comments: ';required';

},

messages: {

Name: ';Please enter your name';,

Company: ';Please enter your company';,

Title: ';Please enter your title';,

Phone: ';Please enter your phone number';,

Email: ';Please enter a valid email address';,

Comments: ';Please enter your comments';

}





});



});

%26lt;/script%26gt;



It looks like you might be able to get ride of certain characters (code) using the removeAttrs( attributes ) option or addMethod to write your own function to make code characters invalid.
To strip HTML tags you can use the .replace() method and a regular expression. I suggest you find a good Reference book on Javascript and study the language a bit more before continuing. Without more detailed information on how/where you want this done, not many can help you.



Good Luck!

Sean Colicchio

Server Engineer

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