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&lt;textarea name=&quot;comments&quot; rows=&quot;6&quot; cols=&quot;48&quot;&gt; &lt;/textarea&gt;<br />
<br />
change to:<br />
<br />
&lt;textarea name=&quot;comments&quot; rows=&quot;6&quot; cols=&quot;48&quot;&gt;&lt;/textarea&gt;
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<textarea name="comments" rows="6" cols="48"> </textarea>

change to:

<textarea name="comments" rows="6" cols="48"></textarea>

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but not checks new lines, tabs, special symbols...<br />
<br />
and what is very important, it doesn't check the spelling ;)
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but not checks new lines, tabs, special symbols...

and what is very important, it doesn't check the spelling ;)

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@Gwyn<br />
<br />
do you belive that I didn't answer the question?<br />
have you no shame?
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@Gwyn

do you belive that I didn't answer the question?
have you no shame?

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How can I validate a textarea is not empty? I use the code below, but it doesn't work well. Any suggestion? Thanks.<br />
<br />
I use the following html code:<br />
&lt;form method=&quot;post&quot; action=&quot;/EW/forms/form.jsp<wbr />&quot; id=formRequest name=Form onSubmit=&quot;return form_validator(this)&quot;&gt;<br />
&lt;table&gt;<br />
&lt;tr&gt;<br />
&lt;td align=&quot;center&quot; colspan=&quot;2&quot;&gt;&lt;textarea name=&quot;comments&quot; rows=&quot;6&quot; cols=&quot;48&quot;&gt; &lt;/textarea&gt;&lt;/td&gt;<br />
&lt;/tr&gt;<br />
&lt;/table&gt;<br />
&lt;/form&gt;<br />
<br />
My javascript:<br />
function form_validator(theForm){<br />
if (theForm.comments.value == &quot;&quot;){<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;alert(&quot;Please provide details.&quot;);<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;theForm.comments.focus();<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;return (false);<br />
&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;} &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; return (true);<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; }
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How can I validate a textarea is not empty? I use the code below, but it doesn't work well. Any suggestion? Thanks.

I use the following html code:
<form method="post" action="/EW/forms/form.jsp" id=formRequest name=Form onSubmit="return form_validator(this)">
<table>
<tr>
<td align="center" colspan="2"><textarea name="comments" rows="6" cols="48"> </textarea></td>
</tr>
</table>
</form>

My javascript:
function form_validator(theForm){
if (theForm.comments.value == ""){
               alert("Please provide details.");
	theForm.comments.focus();
	return (false);
	}	      
    return (true);
    }

Textarea validation.

JavaScript is a dynamic, object-based language commonly used for client-side scripting in web browsers. Recently, server side JavaScript frameworks have also emerged. JavaScript runs on nearly every operating system and  in almost every mainstream web browser.