Bad RegExp

[srkleiman]

MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/email

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

Basic validation

What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

The RE for email validation has an unescaped '/' at the 22nd character.

What did you expect to see?

/^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)*$/

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

No response

Do you have anything more you want to share?

No response

MDN metadata

Page report details

• Folder: en-us/web/html/element/input/email
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/email
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/html/element/input/email/index.md
• Last commit: 245715b
• Document last modified: 2024-08-03T13:26:37.000Z

[Josh-Cena]

The "22nd character" is inside a character class and slashes don't need to be escaped there.

[srkleiman]

Chrome dev console thought it terminated the RegExp.Sent from my iPhoneOn Sep 27, 2024, at 10:49 AM, Joshua Chen ***@***.***> wrote: The "22nd character" is inside a character class and slashes don't need to be escaped there. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[Josh-Cena]