JavaScript input validation with regex

Question

I want to validate my inputs, so the user can just enter letters. The problem is that it just checks one input field but I selected all with :input

code:

$('#formularID').submit(function() {
   var allInputs = $(":input").val();
   var regex     = new RegExp("[a-zA-Z]");
   if(regex.test(allInputs))
   {
       alert("true");
   }else
   {
       alert("false");
       return false;
   }
});

I appreciate every help I can get!

Solution

Firstly you need to cycle through each of your input elements, you can do this by using .each():

// Cycles through each input element
$(":input").each(function(){
    var input = $(this).val();
    ...
});

Next your RegExp is only checking for the first character to be a letter, if you want to ensure that only a steam of letters can match you will want to use ^[a-zA-Z]+$ instead:

$(":input").each(function(){
    var input = $(this).val();
    var regex = new RegExp("^[a-zA-Z]+$");
    if(regex.test(input)) {
        alert("true");
    }else {
        alert("false");
        return false;
    }
});

Here is an example Fiddle