[Ax238]

Sounds good, no problem at all, just making sure. I've come up with a modified version of the previous script that can do what you need for the date formatting. All the user needs to do is enter at least a four digit date. I'd like to see what you come up with before I show it to you. Mine may not be as simple as you want though.

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What I was thinking of is far more simple than what you have. I haven't had time to actually write anything yet, just jotting some things down. The script that I have working right now.

function formatDate (el){    var date = new String(el.value);    var regX = new RegExp("\\d{3,}", "g");    var matches = date.match(regX);    var fDate = "";    for(var i = 0; i < matches.length; i++)    {        fDate = fDate + matches[i];    }    if (fDate.length = 8)    {        date = new String(fDate);        el.value = date.slice(0,2) + '/' + date.slice(2,4) + '.' + date.slice(4,8);    }    else{}}

What I am thinking of doing is just adding to your if statement.

if (fDate.length < 8)

Then popup an alert. "Please enter the numbers in the proper date format MM/DD/YYYY"

[ScHwErV]

What I was thinking of is far more simple than what you have. I haven't had time to actually write anything yet, just jotting some things down. The script that I have working right now.

function formatDate (el){    var date = new String(el.value);    var regX = new RegExp("\\d{3,}", "g");    var matches = date.match(regX);    var fDate = "";    for(var i = 0; i < matches.length; i++)    {        fDate = fDate + matches[i];    }    if (fDate.length = 8)    {        date = new String(fDate);        el.value = date.slice(0,2) + '/' + date.slice(2,4) + '.' + date.slice(4,8);    }    else{}}

What I am thinking of doing is just adding to your if statement.

if (fDate.length < 8)

Then popup an alert. "Please enter the numbers in the proper date format MM/DD/YYYY"

[Ax238]

Yeah I figured it might be more than what you were looking for. Yours looks pretty good to me. What you could do is put the alert in the else clause:

if (fDate.length = 8)

	{

		date = new String(fDate);

		el.value = date.slice(0,2) + '/' + date.slice(2,4) + '.' + date.slice(4,8);

	}

	else

	{

		alert("Please enter a date in the proper date format: MM/DD/YYYY");

	}

You still have a residual '.' in the value too.

[ScHwErV]

I actually tried that yesterday, for some reason, in the else clause, it doesn't work.

I found that rogue '.' too.

[ScHwErV]

The overly simple, final product.

<!--	function formatDate (el)	{		var date = new String(el.value);		var regX = new RegExp("\\d{3,}", "g");		var matches = date.match(regX);		var fDate = "";		for(var i = 0; i < matches.length; i++)		{		fDate = fDate + matches[i];		}		if (fDate.length < 8)		{			alert("Please enter a date in the proper date format: MM/DD/YYYY");		}		else if (fDate.length = 8)		{			date = new String(fDate);			el.value = date.slice(0,2) + '/' + date.slice(2,4) + '/' + date.slice(4,8);		}		else		{}	    	}//-->

[Ax238]

Nice work!

[ScHwErV]

You did most of the work, I just modified. Many thanks.

[Ax238]

It was a pleasure, no problem!