PAN Number Validation using Javascript or jQuery

This post shows PAN no. validation using Javascript or jQuery

Introduction

This post shows the code to validate a PAN number. Here is the Javascript code, just add the class "pan" in a text control.

PAN no. sample: ABCDE1234F

Code

<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function(){

$(".pan").change(function () {
var inputvalues = $(this).val();
  var regex = /[A-Z]{5}[0-9]{4}[A-Z]{1}$/;
  if(!regex.test(inputvalues)){
  $(".pan").val("");
  alert("invalid PAN no");
  return regex.test(inputvalues);
  }
});

});
</script>

PAN : <input type="text" class="pan">