function validation()
{
	var form = document.submitform; 
	var error = document.getElementById('form-error');
	var email = document.getElementById("email");
	//var field = form.email;
	if(!email.value){error.innerHTML =errormessage(" Email ID is compulsory. Please enter a valid email ID. "); field.focus();return false;}
	else if(!emailvalidation(email.value))
	{ 
		error.innerHTML = errormessage("The email ID entered is not in proper format. Please enter a Valid email ID. "); 
		field.focus(); 
		return false;
	}
	else
	{
	var passData  = "switchtype=retrival&email=" + encodeURIComponent(email.value) + "&dummy=" + Math.floor(Math.random()*100000000);  //alert(passData)
	ajaxcall0 = createajax();
	disablenext();
	error.innerHTML ='';
	document.getElementById('customerprocess').innerHTML = 'Processing <img src="../images/inventory-processing.gif" border="0"/>';
	var queryString = "../ajax/custpasswd.php";
	ajaxcall0.open("POST", queryString, true); 
	ajaxcall0.setRequestHeader("Content-type", "application/x-www-form-urlencoded");
	ajaxcall0.onreadystatechange = function()
	{
		if(ajaxcall0.readyState == 4)
		{
			var response = ajaxcall0.responseText;
			var responetext=response.split('^'); //alert(response)
			if(responetext[0] == 1)
			{
				document.getElementById('customerprocess').innerHTML = '';
				error.innerHTML ='';
				document.getElementById('tabc1').style.display ='none'; 
				document.getElementById('tabc2').style.display ='block';
				document.getElementById('form-error1').innerHTML = displaysuccessmessage(responetext[1]);
				//alert(response);
			}
			else
			{
				error.innerHTML ='';
				document.getElementById('customerprocess').innerHTML = '';
				document.getElementById('tabc1').style.display ='block';
				document.getElementById('form-error').innerHTML = errormessage(responetext[1]);
			}
		}
	}
	ajaxcall0.send(passData);
	}
}