I am still trying to find an answer to my question, it seems I have been abandoned in a previous post before my question was answered and I do not have time to wait for a response. So maybe someone new can help me.

When testing my forms multiple times I had no issues, but when someone else tested the form, the message field said it was not filled out. The message field was in fact filled out but was not being recognized. It was set to validate as an alphanumeric field. I removed the alphanumeric setting and it worked? Why is this?

Someone responded to my previous post that special characters would not be accepted in the field, but none were entered. The message in the field was simply "This is a test."

I would like to properly validate my field so the user may enter letters and/or numbers. I would appreciate if someone could explain how to do this whether that means using alphanumeric or not (I thought alphanumeric was the correct way).

Thank you.

Hi rbush:

Depending on how strict the RSJoomla definition of alphanumeric is, it may not allow space characters. It may simply be [a-zA-Z0-9].

If this is the case, you can always write your own RegEx to include spaces.

Well, that would make sense...but that seems pretty silly to me.

Thank you!