Riccardo Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 Hello Everybody! Sometimes I receive email from Guests sent from Contact Form with a wrong email address... because the form does not check if it's correct or not. If a user write accidentally a wrong email address..I cannot answer to his request 😄 Is it possibile to add an "email validation" in this form? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyF Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 The only sensible idea I have for this suggestion is to have an additional field with a 'Confirm Email Address' to ensure it matches the first one entered, so the form (using here as an example) would read: To (Dropdown choice etc) Name: Email Address: Confirm Email Address: Message:  That might be a sensible and acceptable compromise without making the form too cluttered or unwieldy for someone to fill in. 🙂 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riccardo Posted October 10, 2018 Author Share Posted October 10, 2018 1 hour ago, AndyF said: The only sensible idea I have for this suggestion is to have an additional field with a 'Confirm Email Address' to ensure it matches the first one entered, so the form (using here as an example) would read: To (Dropdown choice etc) Name: Email Address: Confirm Email Address: Message:  That might be a sensible and acceptable compromise without making the form too cluttered or unwieldy for someone to fill in. 🙂 I totally agree with you :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bfarber Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 We validate that the email address is in a valid format, but it's not really feasible to validate that the email address a user provides is "correct". We could add a confirm field, but...I don't know about you, however 99% of the time when I run into one of those I just copy the email address I supplied first and paste it into the confirm field, so it rarely helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyF Posted October 10, 2018 Share Posted October 10, 2018 I did think about the copy/paste effect, then thought about some js perhaps (not my area really) to prevent it accepting pasted content in the confirm input box*** but that may annoy the user filling in the page and/or be more bother than gain... *** Just the 'confirm' box should have it disabled , rather than the initial one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riccardo Posted October 11, 2018 Author Share Posted October 11, 2018 I think that is more importat to have a correct email address to answer to instead of a wrong one! So I think It's better to fill by hand the "verification" field in order to be sure he will be re-contacted.. In many contact forms I used there were no possibily to paste a text. what's the problem with this.. If a user doesn't spend 10 seconds re-writing his email address..probably is not interested in an answer.. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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