HTMLTextAreaElement: validity property
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
Thevalidity read-only property of theHTMLTextAreaElement interface returns aValidityState object that represents the validity states this element is in.
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Value
AValidityState 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> |