How to validate a url address in jquery using Regex?

Question

I have searched a lot but didn't get the answer. How to validate URLs like www.google.com and http://www.google.com using regular expressions? Thanks in advance.

What do you mean by validate an URL? Check if it starts with "http://", or "www": `^(?:http|www)`. Have you tried anything? — Wiktor Stribiżew, Apr 01 '15 at 10:43

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Apr 01 '15 at 11:13

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You can use a function to test valid url as:

function validateUrl()   // return true or false.
{
    var urlregex = new RegExp(
          "^(http:\/\/www.|https:\/\/www.|ftp:\/\/www.|www.){1}([0-9A-Za-z]+\.)");
    return urlregex.test(textval);
}

edited Apr 01 '15 at 11:13

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answered Apr 01 '15 at 10:44

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Ohh! sorry my mistake. its working fine. Thanks @sehta – manoj Apr 01 '15 at 10:58
your solution not working at all. see this fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/KJW4E/1284/ – Jitendra Pancholi Apr 05 '18 at 09:14
jsfiddle.net/KJW4E/1286 this also not working... returning false – Umesh Sehta Apr 06 '18 at 12:38

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 01 '15 at 11:00

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You can also use this one, that does not depend on the string start/end:

(\b((?:https?|ftp):\/\/|www\.)([0-9A-Za-z]+\.?)+\b)

See example here.

answered Apr 01 '15 at 11:00

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How to validate a url address in jquery using Regex?

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