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.

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

Specification
HTML
# the-constraint-validation-api:dom-cva-validity

Browser compatibility

See also