Allowed credit card numbers to contain spaces as well as dashes (spaces are commonly input by users). Resolves (jquery-validation#47, jquery-validation#39, jquery-validation#32)

skipchris · skipchris · commit cfdb6c3835b2 · 2011-10-05T13:26:40.000+01:00
* Changed code to allow spaces
 * Amended comment
 * Added Qunit tests.
diff --git a/jquery.validate.js b/jquery.validate.js
@@ -1061,8 +1061,8 @@ $.extend($.validator, {
 		creditcard: function(value, element) {
 			if ( this.optional(element) )
 				return "dependency-mismatch";
-			// accept only digits and dashes
-			if (/[^0-9-]+/.test(value))
+			// accept only spaces, digits and dashes
+			if (/[^0-9 -]+/.test(value))
 				return false;
 			var nCheck = 0,
 				nDigit = 0,
diff --git a/test/methods.js b/test/methods.js
@@ -340,6 +340,7 @@ test("equalTo", function() {
 test("creditcard", function() {
 	var method = methodTest("creditcard");
 	ok( method( "446-667-651" ), "Valid creditcard number" );
+	ok( method( "446 667 651" ), "Valid creditcard number" );
 	ok( !method( "asdf" ), "Invalid creditcard number" );
 });
 
