🆕 blog! “How to check something <em>isn't</em> an email address?”

In web-development circles, it is a well-known fact that trying to validate an email using a regular expression is… complex. The full set of modern email standards allows for such wonderful addresses as: chief.o'brien+ds9@spásárthach.भारत So determining whether or not your user has entered a valid …

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#0f0 #f00 #HTML5 #notemail 

 @2fd7551e 

<input id=user>

user.onchange = () => {
  let input = document.createElement('input');
  input.type = 'email';
  input.required = true;
  input.value = user.value;
  if (input.validity.valid) {
    // show error message
  }
};

https://output.jsbin.com/jafovub/quiet 

 @2fd7551e Really, check for '@' and check you can resolve the part after '@' (maybe is there a MX for it). Then you're good.