HTMLTextAreaElement: validity property

{{APIRef("HTML DOM")}}

The validity read-only property of the {{domxref("HTMLTextAreaElement")}} interface returns a {{domxref("ValidityState")}} object that represents the validity states this element is in.

Value

A {{domxref("ValidityState")}} object.

Examples

The following example gets the validity state of a text area element and processes it if it is not valid:

const textArea = document.getElementById("myTextArea");
const validityState = textArea.validity;
if (!validityState.valid) {
  // Test each validity state
}

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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See also

• {{domxref("HTMLTextAreaElement.checkValidity()")}}
• {{HTMLElement("textarea")}}
• {{HTMLElement("form")}}
• Learn: Client-side form validation
• Guide: Constraint validation