This snippet presupposed an HTML form with and ID of “age-form” and three inputs (text or select) with the IDs “day”, “month”, and “year” respectively.
$("#age-form").submit(function(){
var day = $("#day").val();
var month = $("#month").val();
var year = $("#year").val();
var age = 18;
var mydate = new Date();
mydate.setFullYear(year, month-1, day);
var currdate = new Date();
currdate.setFullYear(currdate.getFullYear() - age);
if ((currdate - mydate) < 0){
alert("Sorry, only persons over the age of " + age + " may enter this site");
return false;
}
return true;
});
You may wish to do something more elegant than an alert, and should also probably validate the form with server side code or else this protection only works for users with JavaScript enabled.
Nice post!
Here’s the php side:
Validators – 2 – Age validation @ alternateIllusion
That’s nice, but I don’t see a point in age validation. Who, under the restricted age, gives their correct age.
Becuase of the legal side of things. With the age validation in place, they cannot be sued by anybody as the person who has accessed the site has stated they are old enough and violated the terms of use.
point is, for example, law in country…
Thanks for this piece of code, it’s very helpful.
I’ve been working with this and it seems to only get your age with an accuracy to year of birth. So, say I was turning 18 years old this year, but still only 17, it would still let me through.
Is there a way to be more accurate to validate according to day and month as well?
Thanks
This will probably work for your requirements.
mydate.setFullYear(year, month-1, day); why -1 for month ?