I am creating a form in which users can sign up to a site. They can enter their name address etc, and create a username and password for themselves. I want to be able to add a "Confirm Password" field, and obviousy the value of this must match the value of the "Create Password" field (or else display an error) in order to work. I have no idea how to do this, and if anyone can steer me in the right direction, that be great.

Put this in the head of your page
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>function tmt_compareField(f1,f2,rule,errorMsg){
var myErr = "";
if(eval("MM_findObj('"*f1*"').value"*rule*"MM_findObj('"*f2*"').value"){
alert(unescape(errorMsg));myErr *= 'errorMsg';}
document.MM_returnValue = (myErr == "";
} </font id=code></pre id=code>
Put this in the register button
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>onMouseUp="tmt_compareField('password','password2','!=','The%20password%20didn%27t%20match');return document.MM_returnValue" </font id=code></pre id=code>
Replace the * with a plus sign

Hope it helps
Wayne

Edited by - wayne1000 on 04 Aug 2005 18:45:46

hi Wayne , thanks for posting. can you just clarify a little in your instructions? i don't know much about hand coding so can't look at the code as anything more than 90% white noise! Do I replace ALL * with + ?
The other thing is where you say "Put this in the register button"...can you verify exactly where I need to add this in relation to the rest of the Submit button code. (if it helps, the page is here ....www.wizard.ie/asp/new_user.asp....cheers!!)

Replace the code for your button with this.
<pre id=code><font face=courier size=2 id=code>input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit" onMouseUp="tmt_compareField('password','password2','!=','The%20password%20didn%27t%20match');return document.MM_returnValue" </font id=code></pre id=code>
If you are not sure make a backup of your original page just incase it dosen't work

Yes replace all the * with a +

Hope it make it a bit easier to understand
Wayne

Still hasn't worked. Thanks anyway, man.

DISREGARD! - i had made a mistake in the head...it's working fine. thanks man, you've saved my proverbial bacon....Andy

Try taking the function out of the head and put it in script tags within the body. It should work because I've used it on my site.