function validateEmail(emailaddress){  
   var emailReg = /^([\w-\.]+@([\w-]+\.)+[\w-]{2,4})?$/;  
   if(!emailReg.test(emailaddress)) {  
        alert("Please enter valid email id");
   }       
}

一个非常简单的解决方案是使用html5验证:

<form>
  <input type="email" required pattern="[^@]+@[^@]+\.[a-zA-Z]{2,6}">

  <input type="submit">
</form>

http://jsfiddle.net/du676/56/

checkRegexp( email, /^((([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, "eg. ui@jquery.com" );

参考:JQUERY UI网站

<script type = "text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.8.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type = "text/javascript">
    function ValidateEmail(email) {
        var expr = /^([\w-\.]+)@((\[[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.)|(([\w-]+\.)+))([a-zA-Z]{2,4}|[0-9]{1,3})(\]?)$/;
        return expr.test(email);
    };
    $("#btnValidate").live("click", function () {
        if (!ValidateEmail($("#txtEmail").val())) {
            alert("Invalid email address.");
        }
        else {
            alert("Valid email address.");
        }
    });
</script>
<input type = "text" id = "txtEmail" />
<input type = "button" id = "btnValidate" value = "Validate" />

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(document).ready(function() {
      $('.form_error').hide();
      $('#submit').click(function(){
           var name = $('#name').val();
           var email = $('#email').val();
           var phone = $('#phone').val();
           var message = $('#message').val();
           if(name== ''){
              $('#name').next().show();
              return false;
            }
            if(email== ''){
               $('#email').next().show();
               return false;
            }
            if(IsEmail(email)==false){
                $('#invalid_email').show();
                return false;
            }

            if(phone== ''){
                $('#phone').next().show();
                return false;
            }
            if(message== ''){
                $('#message').next().show();
                return false;
            }
            //ajax call php page
            $.post("send.php", $("#contactform").serialize(),  function(response) {
            $('#contactform').fadeOut('slow',function(){
                $('#success').html(response);
                $('#success').fadeIn('slow');
               });
             });
             return false;
          });
      });
      function IsEmail(email) {
        var regex = /^([a-zA-Z0-9_\.\-\+])+\@(([a-zA-Z0-9\-])+\.)+([a-zA-Z0-9]{2,4})+$/;
        if(!regex.test(email)) {
           return false;
        }else{
           return true;
        }
      }
  </script>

<form action="" method="post" id="contactform">
                            <table class="contact-table">
                              <tr>
                                <td><label for="name">Name :</label></td>
                                <td class="name"> <input name="name" id="name" type="text" placeholder="Please enter your name" class="contact-input"><span class="form_error">Please enter your name</span></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td><label for="email">Email :</label></td>
                                <td class="email"><input name="email" id="email" type="text" placeholder="Please enter your email" class="contact-input"><span class="form_error">Please enter your email</span>
                                  <span class="form_error" id="invalid_email">This email is not valid</span></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td><label for="phone">Phone :</label></td>
                                <td class="phone"><input name="phone" id="phone" type="text" placeholder="Please enter your phone" class="contact-input"><span class="form_error">Please enter your phone</span></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td><label for="message">Message :</label></td>
                                <td class="message"><textarea name="message" id="message" class="contact-input"></textarea><span class="form_error">Please enter your message</span></td>
                              </tr>
                              <tr>
                                <td></td>
                                <td>
                                  <input type="submit" class="contactform-buttons" id="submit"value="Send" />
                                  <input type="reset" class="contactform-buttons" id="" value="Clear" />
                                </td>
                              </tr>
                            </table>
     </form>
     <div id="success" style="color:red;"></div>

我使用jQuery验证插件有几个原因。

你验证了，很好，现在呢?你需要显示错误，处理擦除它时，它是有效的，显示有多少错误，也许?它可以为你处理很多事情，不需要重新发明轮子。

另外，另一个巨大的好处是它托管在CDN上，在这里可以找到这个答案的当前版本:http://www.asp.net/ajaxLibrary/CDNjQueryValidate16.ashx这意味着客户端加载时间更快。