How can I validate an email address in JavaScript?

Using regular expressions is probably the best way of validating an email address in JavaScript. View a bunch of tests on JSFiddle taken from Chromium.

const validateEmail = (email) => {
  return String(email)
    .toLowerCase()
    .match(
      /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+)*)|.(".+"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/
    );
};

The following is an example of a regular expression that accepts unicode.

const re =
  /^(([^<>()[\]\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@(([^<>()[\]\.,;:\s@\"]+\.)+[^<>()[\]\.,;:\s@\"]{2,})$/i;

Keep in mind that one should not rely on JavaScript validation alone, as JavaScript can be easily disabled by the client. Furthermore, it is important to validate on the server side.

The following snippet of code is an example of JavaScript validating an email address on the client side.

const validateEmail = (email) => {
  return email.match(
    /^(([^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()[\]\\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/
  );
};

const validate = () => {
  const $result = $('#result');
  const email = $('#email').val();
  $result.text('');

  if(validateEmail(email)){
    $result.text(email + ' is valid.');
    $result.css('color', 'green');
  } else{
    $result.text(email + ' is invalid.');
    $result.css('color', 'red');
  }
  return false;
}

$('#email').on('input', validate);

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>

<label for="email">Enter email address</label>
<input id="email" type="email">

<p id="result"></p>

I've slightly modified Jaymon's answer for people who want really simple validation in the form of:

anystring@anystring.anystring

The regular expression:

/^\S+@\S+\.\S+$/

To prevent matching multiple @ signs:

/^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$/

The above regexes match the whole string, remove the leading and ^ and trailing $ if you want to match anywhere in the string. The example below matches anywhere in the string.

If you do want to match the whole sring, you may want to trim() the string first.

Example JavaScript function:

function validateEmail(email) {
  var re = /\S+@\S+\.\S+/;
  return re.test(email);
}
    
console.log(validateEmail('my email is anystring@anystring.any')); // true
    
console.log(validateEmail('my email is anystring@anystring .any')); // false

Just for completeness, here you have another RFC 2822 compliant regex

The official standard is known as RFC 2822. It describes the syntax that valid email addresses must adhere to. You can (but you shouldn't — read on) implement it with this regular expression:

(?:[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*|"(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21\x23-\x5b\x5d-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])*")@(?:(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?|\[(?:(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?)\.){3}(?:25[0-5]|2[0-4][0-9]|[01]?[0-9][0-9]?|[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9]:(?:[\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x21-\x5a\x53-\x7f]|\\[\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x7f])+)\])

(...) We get a more practical implementation of RFC 2822 if we omit the syntax using double quotes and square brackets. It will still match 99.99% of all email addresses in actual use today.

[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?

A further change you could make is to allow any two-letter country code top level domain, and only specific generic top level domains. This regex filters dummy email addresses like asdf@adsf.adsf. You will need to update it as new top-level domains are added.

[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|gov|mil|biz|info|mobi|name|aero|jobs|museum)\b

So even when following official standards, there are still trade-offs to be made. Don't blindly copy regular expressions from online libraries or discussion forums. Always test them on your own data and with your own applications.

_{Emphasis mine}

Wow, there are lots of complexity here. If all you want to do is just catch the most obvious syntax errors, I would do something like this:

^\S+@\S+$

It usually catches the most obvious errors that the user makes and assures that the form is mostly right, which is what JavaScript validation is all about.

EDIT: We can also check for '.' in the email using

/^\S+@\S+\.\S+$/

There's something you have to understand the second you decide to use a regular expression to validate emails: It's probably not a good idea. Once you have come to terms with that, there are many implementations out there that can get you halfway there, this article sums them up nicely.

In short, however, the only way to be absolutely, positively sure that what the user entered is in fact an email is to actually send an email and see what happens. Other than that it's all just guesses.

HTML5 itself has email validation. If your browser supports HTML5 then you can use the following code.

<form>
  <label>Email Address
    <input type="email" placeholder="me@example.com" required>
  </label>
  <input type="submit">
</form>

jsFiddle link

From the HTML5 spec:

A valid e-mail address is a string that matches the email production of the following ABNF, the character set for which is Unicode.

email   = 1*( atext / "." ) "@" label *( "." label )
label   = let-dig [ [ ldh-str ] let-dig ]  ; limited to a length of 63 characters by RFC 1034 section 3.5
atext   = < as defined in RFC 5322 section 3.2.3 >
let-dig = < as defined in RFC 1034 section 3.5 >
ldh-str = < as defined in RFC 1034 section 3.5 >

This requirement is a willful violation of RFC 5322, which defines a syntax for e-mail addresses that is simultaneously too strict (before the "@" character), too vague (after the "@" character), and too lax (allowing comments, whitespace characters, and quoted strings in manners unfamiliar to most users) to be of practical use here.

The following JavaScript- and Perl-compatible regular expression is an implementation of the above definition.

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

I have found this to be the best solution:

/^[^\s@]+@[^\s@]+\.[^\s@]+$/

It allows the following formats:

1.  prettyandsimple@example.com
2.  very.common@example.com
3.  disposable.style.email.with+symbol@example.com
4.  other.email-with-dash@example.com
9.  #!$%&'*+-/=?^_`{}|~@example.org
6.  "()[]:,;@\\\"!#$%&'*+-/=?^_`{}| ~.a"@example.org
7.  " "@example.org (space between the quotes)
8.  üñîçøðé@example.com (Unicode characters in local part)
9.  üñîçøðé@üñîçøðé.com (Unicode characters in domain part)
10. Pelé@example.com (Latin)
11. δοκιμή@παράδειγμα.δοκιμή (Greek)
12. 我買@屋企.香港 (Chinese)
13. 甲斐@黒川.日本 (Japanese)
14. чебурашка@ящик-с-апельсинами.рф (Cyrillic)

It's clearly versatile and allows the all-important international characters, while still enforcing the basic anything@anything.anything format. It will block spaces which are technically allowed by RFC, but they are so rare that I'm happy to do this.

In modern browsers you can build on top of @Sushil's answer with pure JavaScript and the DOM:

function validateEmail(value) {
  var input = document.createElement('input');

  input.type = 'email';
  input.required = true;
  input.value = value;

  return typeof input.checkValidity === 'function' ? input.checkValidity() : /\S+@\S+\.\S+/.test(value);
}

I've put together an example in the fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/boldewyn/2b6d5/. Combined with feature detection and the bare-bones validation from Squirtle's Answer, it frees you from the regular expression massacre and does not bork on old browsers.

JavaScript can match a regular expression:

emailAddress.match( / some_regex /);

Here's an RFC22 regular expression for emails:

^((?>[a-zA-Z\d!#$%&'*+\-/=?^_`{|}~]+\x20*|"((?=[\x01-\x7f])[^"\\]|\\[\x01-\x7f])*
"\x20*)*(?<angle><))?((?!\.)(?>\.?[a-zA-Z\d!#$%&'*+\-/=?^_`{|}~]+)+|"((?=[\x01-\x
7f])[^"\\]|\\[\x01-\x7f])*")@(((?!-)[a-zA-Z\d\-]+(?<!-)\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}|\[(((?(?<
!\[)\.)(25[0-5]|2[0-4]\d|[01]?\d?\d)){4}|[a-zA-Z\d\-]*[a-zA-Z\d]:((?=[\x01-\x7f])
[^\\\[\]]|\\[\x01-\x7f])+)\])(?(angle)>)$

All email addresses contain an 'at' (i.e. @) symbol. Test that necessary condition:

email.includes('@')

Or, if you need to support IE/older browsers:

email.indexOf('@') > 0

Don't bother with anything more complicated. Even if you could perfectly determine whether an email is RFC-syntactically valid, that wouldn't tell you whether it belongs to the person who supplied it. That's what really matters.

To test that, send a validation message.

Correct validation of email address in compliance with the RFCs is not something that can be achieved with a one-liner regular expression. An article with the best solution I've found in PHP is What is a valid email address?. Obviously, it has been ported to Java. I think the function is too complex to be ported and used in JavaScript. JavaScript/node.js port: https://www.npmjs.com/package/email-addresses.

A good practice is to validate your data on the client, but double-check the validation on the server. With this in mind, you can simply check whether a string looks like a valid email address on the client and perform the strict check on the server.

Here's the JavaScript function I use to check if a string looks like a valid mail address:

function looksLikeMail(str) {
    var lastAtPos = str.lastIndexOf('@');
    var lastDotPos = str.lastIndexOf('.');
    return (lastAtPos < lastDotPos && lastAtPos > 0 && str.indexOf('@@') == -1 && lastDotPos > 2 && (str.length - lastDotPos) > 2);
}

Explanation:

• lastAtPos < lastDotPos: Last @ should be before last . since @ cannot be part of server name (as far as I know).

• lastAtPos > 0: There should be something (the email username) before the last @.

• str.indexOf('@@') == -1: There should be no @@ in the address. Even if @ appears as the last character in email username, it has to be quoted so " would be between that @ and the last @ in the address.

• lastDotPos > 2: There should be at least three characters before the last dot, for example a@b.com.

• (str.length - lastDotPos) > 2: There should be enough characters after the last dot to form a two-character domain. I'm not sure if the brackets are necessary.

This is the correct RFC822 version.

function checkEmail(emailAddress) {
  var sQtext = '[^\\x0d\\x22\\x5c\\x80-\\xff]';
  var sDtext = '[^\\x0d\\x5b-\\x5d\\x80-\\xff]';
  var sAtom = '[^\\x00-\\x20\\x22\\x28\\x29\\x2c\\x2e\\x3a-\\x3c\\x3e\\x40\\x5b-\\x5d\\x7f-\\xff]+';
  var sQuotedPair = '\\x5c[\\x00-\\x7f]';
  var sDomainLiteral = '\\x5b(' + sDtext + '|' + sQuotedPair + ')*\\x5d';
  var sQuotedString = '\\x22(' + sQtext + '|' + sQuotedPair + ')*\\x22';
  var sDomain_ref = sAtom;
  var sSubDomain = '(' + sDomain_ref + '|' + sDomainLiteral + ')';
  var sWord = '(' + sAtom + '|' + sQuotedString + ')';
  var sDomain = sSubDomain + '(\\x2e' + sSubDomain + ')*';
  var sLocalPart = sWord + '(\\x2e' + sWord + ')*';
  var sAddrSpec = sLocalPart + '\\x40' + sDomain; // complete RFC822 email address spec
  var sValidEmail = '^' + sAddrSpec + '$'; // as whole string

  var reValidEmail = new RegExp(sValidEmail);

  return reValidEmail.test(emailAddress);
}

This was stolen from http://codesnippets.joyent.com/posts/show/1917

email = $('email');
filter = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
if (filter.test(email.value)) {
  // Yay! valid
  return true;
}
else
  {return false;}

Do this:

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

It's based on RFC 2822

Test it at https://regex101.com/r/857lzc/1

Often when storing email addresses in the database I make them lowercase and, in practice, regexs can usually be marked case insensitive. In those cases this is slightly shorter:

[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?

Here's an example of it being used in JavaScript (with the case insensitive flag i at the end).

var emailCheck=/^[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?$/i;
console.log( emailCheck.test('some.body@domain.co.uk') );

Note:
Technically some emails can include quotes in the section before the @ symbol with escape characters inside the quotes (so your email user can be obnoxious and contain stuff like @ and "..." as long as it's written in quotes). NOBODY DOES THIS EVER! It's obsolete. But, it IS included in the true RFC 2822 standard and omitted here.

Note 2: The beginning of an email (before the @ sign) can be case sensitive (via the spec). However, anyone with a case-sensitive email is probably used to having issues, and, in practice, case insensitive is a safe assumption. More info: Are email addresses case sensitive?

More info: http://www.regular-expressions.info/email.html

I'm really looking forward to solve this problem. So I modified email validation regular expression above

• Original
  /^(([^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+(\.[^<>()\[\]\\.,;:\s@"]+)*)|(".+"))@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}])|(([a-zA-Z\-0-9]+\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,}))$/

• Modified
  /^(([^<>()\[\]\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()\[\]\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@(([^<>()\.,;\s@\"]+\.{0,1})+[^<>()\.,;:\s@\"]{2,})$/

to pass the examples in Wikipedia Email Address.

And you can see the result in here.

Simply check out if the entered email address is valid or not using HTML.

<input type="email"/>

There isn't any need to write a function for validation.

Wikipedia standard mail syntax :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email_address#Examples https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adresse_%C3%A9lectronique#Syntaxe_exacte

Function :

function validMail(mail)
{
    return /^(([^<>()\[\]\.,;:\s@\"]+(\.[^<>()\[\]\.,;:\s@\"]+)*)|(\".+\"))@(([^<>()\.,;\s@\"]+\.{0,1})+([^<>()\.,;:\s@\"]{2,}|[\d\.]+))$/.test(mail);
}

Valid emails :

validMail('Abc@example.com') // Return true
validMail('Abc@example.com.') // Return true
validMail('Abc@10.42.0.1') // Return true
validMail('user@localserver') // Return true
validMail('Abc.123@example.com') // Return true
validMail('user+mailbox/department=shipping@example.com') // Return true
validMail('"very.(),:;<>[]\".VERY.\"very@\\ \"very\".unusual"@strange.example.com') // Return true
validMail('!#$%&\'*+-/=?^_`.{|}~@example.com') // Return true
validMail('"()<>[]:,;@\\\"!#$%&\'-/=?^_`{}| ~.a"@example.org') // Return true
validMail('"Abc@def"@example.com') // Return true
validMail('"Fred Bloggs"@example.com') // Return true
validMail('"Joe.\\Blow"@example.com') // Return true
validMail('Loïc.Accentué@voilà.fr') // Return true
validMail('" "@example.org') // Return true
validMail('user@[IPv6:2001:DB8::1]') // Return true

Invalid emails :

validMail('Abc.example.com') // Return false
validMail('A@b@c@example.com') // Return false
validMail('a"b(c)d,e:f;g<h>i[j\k]l@example.com') // Return false
validMail('just"not"right@example.com') // Return false
validMail('this is"not\allowed@example.com') // Return false
validMail('this\ still\"not\\allowed@example.com') // Return false
validMail('john..doe@example.com') // Return false
validMail('john.doe@example..com') // Return false

Show this test : https://regex101.com/r/LHJ9gU/1

You should not use regular expressions to validate an input string to check if it's an email. It's too complicated and would not cover all the cases.

Now since you can only cover 90% of the cases, write something like:

function isPossiblyValidEmail(txt) {
   return txt.length > 5 && txt.indexOf('@')>0;
}

You can refine it. For instance, 'aaa@' is valid. But overall you get the gist. And don't get carried away... A simple 90% solution is better than 100% solution that does not work.

The world needs simpler code...

Regex updated! try this

let val = 'email@domain.com';
if(/^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-_\.]+@([a-z]|[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9-]+[a-z0-9])\.[a-z0-9]{2,10}(?:\.[a-z]{2,10})?$/.test(val)) {
   console.log('passed');
}

typscript version complete

//
export const emailValid = (val:string):boolean => /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9-_\.]+@([a-z]|[a-z0-9]?[a-z0-9-]+[a-z0-9])\.[a-z0-9]{2,10}(?:\.[a-z]{2,10})?$/.test(val);

more info https://git.io/vhEfc

It's hard to get an email validator 100% correct. The only real way to get it correct would be to send a test email to the account. That said, there are a few basic checks that can help make sure that you're getting something reasonable.

Some things to improve:

Instead of new RegExp, just try writing the regexp out like this:

if (reg.test(/@/))

Second, check to make sure that a period comes after the @ sign, and make sure that there are characters between the @s and periods.

This is how node-validator does it:

/^(?:[\w\!\#\$\%\&\'\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`\{\|\}\~]+\.)*[\w\!\#\$\%\&\'\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`\{\|\}\~]+@(?:(?:(?:[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]?)|(?:\[(?:(?:[01]?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.){3}(?:[01]?\d{1,2}|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\]))$/

A solution that does not check the existence of the TLD is incomplete.

Almost all answers to this questions suggest using Regex to validate emails addresses. I think Regex is only good for a rudimentary validation. It seems that the checking validation of email addresses is actually two separate problems:

1- Validation of email format: Making sure if the email complies with the format and pattern of emails in RFC 5322 and if the TLD actually exists. A list of all valid TLDs can be found here.

For example, although the address example@example.ccc will pass the regex, it is not a valid email, because ccc is not a top-level domain by IANA.

2- Making sure the email actually exists: For doing this, the only option is to send the users an email.

Use this code inside your validator function:

var emailID = document.forms["formName"]["form element id"].value;
atpos = emailID.indexOf("@");
dotpos = emailID.lastIndexOf(".");
if (atpos < 1 || ( dotpos - atpos < 2 ))
{
    alert("Please enter correct email ID")
    return false;
}

Else you can use jQuery. Inside rules define:

eMailId: {
    required: true,
    email: true
}

In contrast to squirtle, here is a complex solution, but it does a mighty fine job of validating emails properly:

function isEmail(email) { 
    return /^((([a-z]|\d|[!#\$%&'\*\+\-\/=\?\^_`{\|}~]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+(\.([a-z]|\d|[!#\$%&'\*\+\-\/=\?\^_`{\|}~]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])+)*)|((\x22)((((\x20|\x09)*(\x0d\x0a))?(\x20|\x09)+)?(([\x01-\x08\x0b\x0c\x0e-\x1f\x7f]|\x21|[\x23-\x5b]|[\x5d-\x7e]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(\\([\x01-\x09\x0b\x0c\x0d-\x7f]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF]))))*(((\x20|\x09)*(\x0d\x0a))?(\x20|\x09)+)?(\x22)))@((([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.)+(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))$/i.test(email);
} 

Use like so:

if (isEmail('youremail@yourdomain.com')){ console.log('This is email is valid'); }

My knowledge of regular expressions is not that good. That's why I check the general syntax with a simple regular expression first and check more specific options with other functions afterwards. This may not be not the best technical solution, but this way I'm way more flexible and faster.

The most common errors I've come across are spaces (especially at the beginning and end) and occasionally a double dot.

function check_email(val){
    if(!val.match(/\S+@\S+\.\S+/)){ // Jaymon's / Squirtle's solution
        // Do something
        return false;
    }
    if( val.indexOf(' ')!=-1 || val.indexOf('..')!=-1){
        // Do something
        return false;
    }
    return true;
}

check_email('check@thiscom'); // Returns false
check_email('check@this..com'); // Returns false
check_email(' check@this.com'); // Returns false
check_email('check@this.com'); // Returns true

Regex for validating email address

[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+(?:\.[a-z0-9!#$%&'*+/=?^_`{|}~-]+)*@(?:[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])?\.)+[a-z0-9](?:[a-z0-9-]*[a-z0-9])+

Here is a very good discussion about using regular expressions to validate email addresses; "Comparing E-mail Address Validating Regular Expressions"

Here is the current top expression, that is JavaScript compatible, for reference purposes:

/^[-a-z0-9~!$%^&*_=+}{\'?]+(\.[-a-z0-9~!$%^&*_=+}{\'?]+)*@([a-z0-9_][-a-z0-9_]*(\.[-a-z0-9_]+)*\.(aero|arpa|biz|com|coop|edu|gov|info|int|mil|museum|name|net|org|pro|travel|mobi|[a-z][a-z])|([0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}))(:[0-9]{1,5})?$/i

Apparently, that's it:

/^([\w\!\#$\%\&\'\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`{\|\}\~]+\.)*[\w\!\#$\%\&\'\*\+\-\/\=\?\^\`{\|\}\~]+@((((([a-z0-9]{1}[a-z0-9\-]{0,62}[a-z0-9]{1})|[a-z])\.)+[a-z]{2,6})|(\d{1,3}\.){3}\d{1,3}(\:\d{1,5})?)$/i

Taken from http://fightingforalostcause.net/misc/2006/compare-email-regex.php on Oct 1 '10.

But, of course, that's ignoring internationalization.

Wow, there are a lot of answers that contain slightly different regular expressions. I've tried many that I've got different results and a variety of different issues with all of them.

For UI validation, I'm good with the most basic check of looking for an @ sign. It's important to note, that I always do server-side validation with a standard "validate email" that contains a unique link for the user to confirm their email address.

if (email.indexOf('@') > 0)

I have purposely chosen 0 even with zero-based as it also ensures there is a single character before the @.