With Regular expression, you can easily verify valid Website URLs in JavaScript.
Regex
string.match(/(http(s)?:\/\/.)?(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/g);Website URL validation in JavaScript
HTML example code JavaScript function to check whether a given value is a valid website URL or not. It will validate the URL with or without HTTP/HTTPS.
<html>
<body>
<script>
function isValidURL(string) {
var res = string.match(/(http(s)?:\/\/.)?(www\.)?[-a-zA-Z0-9@:%._\+~#=]{2,256}\.[a-z]{2,6}\b([-a-zA-Z0-9@:%_\+.~#?&//=]*)/g);
return (res !== null)
};
console.log(isValidURL("http://www.google.com"));
console.log(isValidURL("https://www.eyehunts.com"));
console.log(isValidURL("www.example.com"));
</script>
</body>
</html>Output:
Do comment if you have any doubts or suggestions on this JS URL code.
Note: The All JS Examples codes are tested on the Firefox browser and the Chrome browser.
OS: Windows 10
Code: HTML 5 Version