Comments on: Even the Big Guys Get Validation Wrong

By: James Benson

James Benson — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:32:53 +0000

Most the sites I’ve seen do not replace spaces, how hard can it be.

By: Michael

Michael — Tue, 01 May 2007 17:01:36 +0000

I just type it in slowly and dont put in spaces cause of that error.

Its one of those things, dont get too caught up in not making errors. If you do go back and correct it, but check your work over slowly the first time.

By: Enric Naval

Enric Naval — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 17:54:31 +0000

Ejem, let’s try a smaller text size.

Example: XXXXXXXXXXXX (all numbers, no spaces)

By: Enric Naval

Enric Naval — Mon, 08 Nov 2004 17:53:25 +0000

This can be solved by puting a small example entry besides the text area. The users would see a text like:
Example: XXXXXXXXXXXX (all numbers, no spaces)[
When users encounter the problem, they will read the small example text and remove the spaces to make their entry as similar to the example as posible.

This is many times easier than checking and correcting every single possible way a user can enter the data (users can be very imaginative when it comes to mangling input data].