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
}