[jonnekke]

Hi there,

I want javascript to check if there is text in my textarea. I wrote this piece of javascript,
but somehow it always says it's empty.

Code:

if(document.getElementById("uiterlijk").value == ""){  
		 document.getElementById("truiterlijk").style.backgroundColor = "red";
		 error++; 
	  } else {
	  	document.getElementById("truiterlijk").style.backgroundColor = "#ffffff";
	  }

my html looks like:

HTML Code:

<tr style="background-color:#ffffff;" id="truiterlijk">
		<td valign="top" style="padding:5px 0px 0px 5px;" align="left">uiterlijk</td>
		<td style="padding:3px 0px 3px 15px; min-width:40px;" align="left">		
			<textarea id="uiterlijk" name="uiterlijk" class="inputtext" style="height:150px;"></textarea>		
		</td>
	</tr>

How to check this? I assume it's because there is no "value" tag in the textarea part.
But there shouldn't be one. How to check for text anyway?.

_j

[wirehopper]

I think your code should work as it is.

HTML DOM Textarea Object

[jonnekke]

that's what I thought too, but the backgrounColor is set to red no matter if there is text in the area.

[wirehopper]

When is the javascript executed? On submit?

[jonnekke]

yes it is executed on submit.

Other parts that check a single line input and select input work fine, except this textarea part.

I just found it has something to do with the TinyMCE editor I'm using. This mess up the value.
If I disable it, there is no problem.