Bogus web form field entry

In my secure zone areas that have web forms I find Random letters in web form fields from persons who are not prviding required info in fields.
Is there a way to validate web form entry in certain fields?

Hi Will,
When you form a web form in BC when you tick that it is required that is added to the javascript that is at the bottom of the form. That only stops if it is empty or not.
To have validation on fields that is more advanced you need to look to use something like this:
http://jqueryvalidation.org/

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