// do something perhaps
});
```
+
+## Builtin Patterns and Validators
+
+The following patterns and validators are already built in:
+
+`alpha`,
+`alpha_numeric`,
+`card`,
+`color`
+`cvv`,
+`date`,
+`dateISO`,
+`datetime`,
+`day_month_year`,
+`domain`,
+`email`,
+`integer`,
+`month_day_year`,
+`number`,
+`time`,
+`url`
+
+They are defined by regular expressions as you can see below. Note, that the patterns that relate to text such as `alpha` and `alpha_numeric` do not consider special characters from other languages. You need to add these special characters yourself to the regular expressions. For instance, for the German language you need to add:
+
+```JS
+alpha : /^[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ]+$/,
+alpha_numeric : /^[a-zäöüßA-ZÄÖÜ0-9]+$/,
+```
+
+Then you need to customize the builtin pattern as explained in the next session. Otherwise Abide will produce an error if a special character is input in your text field which is validated with `pattern="alpha"` or `pattern="alpha_numeric"`.
+
+Here is the definition of the builtin patterns:
+
+```JS
+alpha : /^[a-zA-Z]+$/,
+alpha_numeric : /^[a-zA-Z0-9]+$/,
+integer : /^[-+]?\d+$/,
+number : /^[-+]?\d*(?:[\.\,]\d+)?$/,
+
+// amex, visa, diners
+card : /^(?:4[0-9]{12}(?:[0-9]{3})?|5[1-5][0-9]{14}|6(?:011|5[0-9][0-9])[0-9]{12}|3[47][0-9]{13}|3(?:0[0-5]|[68][0-9])[0-9]{11}|(?:2131|1800|35\d{3})\d{11})$/,
+cvv : /^([0-9]){3,4}$/,
+
+// http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/states-of-the-type-attribute.html#valid-e-mail-address
+email : /^[a-zA-Z0-9.!#$%&'*+\/=?^_`{|}~-]+@[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?(?:\.[a-zA-Z0-9](?:[a-zA-Z0-9-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?)+$/,
+
+url : /^(https?|ftp|file|ssh):\/\/(((([a-zA-Z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:)*@)?(((\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5])\.(\d|[1-9]\d|1\d\d|2[0-4]\d|25[0-5]))|((([a-zA-Z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-zA-Z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-zA-Z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-zA-Z]|\d|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.)+(([a-zA-Z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(([a-zA-Z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])([a-zA-Z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])*([a-zA-Z]|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])))\.?)(:\d*)?)(\/((([a-zA-Z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)+(\/(([a-zA-Z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)*)*)?)?(\?((([a-zA-Z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)|[\uE000-\uF8FF]|\/|\?)*)?(\#((([a-zA-Z]|\d|-|\.|_|~|[\u00A0-\uD7FF\uF900-\uFDCF\uFDF0-\uFFEF])|(%[\da-f]{2})|[!\$&'\(\)\*\+,;=]|:|@)|\/|\?)*)?$/,
+// abc.de
+domain : /^([a-zA-Z0-9]([a-zA-Z0-9\-]{0,61}[a-zA-Z0-9])?\.)+[a-zA-Z]{2,8}$/,
+
+datetime : /^([0-2][0-9]{3})\-([0-1][0-9])\-([0-3][0-9])T([0-5][0-9])\:([0-5][0-9])\:([0-5][0-9])(Z|([\-\+]([0-1][0-9])\:00))$/,
+// YYYY-MM-DD
+date : /(?:19|20)[0-9]{2}-(?:(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(?:0[1-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-9])|(?:(?!02)(?:0[1-9]|1[0-2])-(?:30))|(?:(?:0[13578]|1[02])-31))$/,
+// HH:MM:SS
+time : /^(0[0-9]|1[0-9]|2[0-3])(:[0-5][0-9]){2}$/,
+dateISO : /^\d{4}[\/\-]\d{1,2}[\/\-]\d{1,2}$/,
+// MM/DD/YYYY
+month_day_year : /^(0[1-9]|1[012])[- \/.](0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- \/.]\d{4}$/,
+// DD/MM/YYYY
+day_month_year : /^(0[1-9]|[12][0-9]|3[01])[- \/.](0[1-9]|1[012])[- \/.]\d{4}$/,
+
+// #FFF or #FFFFFF
+color : /^#?([a-fA-F0-9]{6}|[a-fA-F0-9]{3})$/
+```
+
+
## Adding Custom Pattern and Validator
* Override builtin patterns and validators before foundation is initialized
* Add new patterns and validators before or after foundation is initialized