HTMLTextAreaElement: validity property
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Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The validity read-only property of the HTMLTextAreaElement interface returns a ValidityState object that represents the validity states this element is in.
Value
A ValidityState object.
Examples
The following example gets the validity state of a text area element and processes it if it is not valid:
js
const textArea = document.getElementById("myTextArea");
const validityState = textArea.validity;
if (!validityState.valid) {
// Test each validity state
}
Specifications
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| HTML # the-constraint-validation-api:dom-cva-validity |
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