.NET date validation with jQuery

Question

I need to do some basic validation on a date, things like validating that the date is greater than today, validating that the date is real (i.e. "99/99/9999"), etc. Basically, I need to emulate what .NET does with DateTime.TryParse.

Is there anything like that in jQuery? Or would I be better off making an AJAX call to validate the date in C#?

Answer 1

You could use the RangeValidator or jquery.validation.

Answer 2

validating date ranges

http://jqueryui.com/demos/datepicker/ you could use this.. it's a decent tool with lots of settings

Answer 3

A way around this issue is to use a jQuery UI Datepicker for the input. Of course you might want to validate the date on the server when it's posted, too.

Answer 4

You could certainly create a JavaScript validator that would apply a regex to the field. Don't think you'd even really need JQuery for it. However, you will need to perform similar validation on the server-side anyway, because JavaScript can be disabled at the client, or your HTML can be edited client-side to remove the validation call from the form element.

A regex like the following would catch most "insane" dates, e.g. 99/99/9999, but is still a bit naive as it doesn't properly validate leap years or 30/31 day months; it'll accept 2/31/2009 for instance.

"^(1[0-2]|0?\d)/(3[0-1]|[1-2]\d|0?\d)/(19|20)\d{2}$"