Title: Checking form before submission
Last modified: September 2, 2018
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# Checking form before submission
* [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
* (@funsail)
* [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-form-before-submission/)
* I get form spam where the first and last name are exactly the same. Is it possible
to add JavaScript to check this and not submit the form in this case?
- This topic was modified 7 years, 8 months ago by [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/).
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* Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
* (@sterndata)
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* [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-form-before-submission/#post-10649033)
* Have you tried adding a recaptcha?
* What form plugin are you using?
* Thread Starter [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
* (@funsail)
* [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-form-before-submission/#post-10649051)
* I don’t want to use recaptcha, since I don’t get a huge amounts of spam. It’s
just this robot spam that’s so specific I thought can add this to the site with
some simple script that doesn’t affect real users.
* Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
* (@sterndata)
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* [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-form-before-submission/#post-10649057)
* Again, what plugin are you using for your form? There are anti-spam plugins that
work with some of the forms plugins.
* Thread Starter [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
* (@funsail)
* [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-form-before-submission/#post-10649064)
* I’m trying to move away from cf7 hence wanting something more generic. I know
they run JavaScript because they pass cloudflare js challenge. That’s why I want
to know how to do an exact check with the first name and last name are identical.
* Thread Starter [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
* (@funsail)
* [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-form-before-submission/#post-10649070)
* It’s probably a new spam software. I get different spams from the same setup.
I already have the honey pot plugin.
Today it’s about bitcoin and a sick person.
Last time it’s something else.
* Moderator [Steven Stern (sterndata)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sterndata/)
* (@sterndata)
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* [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-form-before-submission/#post-10649072)
* Before it’s submitted, it would have to be in Javascript, something like [https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12058081/comparing-two-input-fields](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/12058081/comparing-two-input-fields)
* Afterwards, you’d do it in whatever PHP processes the form.
* There is no “generic” solution. It depends on how you build your form.
* Thread Starter [funsail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/funsail/)
* (@funsail)
* [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/checking-form-before-submission/#post-10649217)
* Hmm, since I use a plugin I can’t edit the code it generates to add this
*