Validation of a textarea

[NiteCrawlr]

Hi,

This might be easy, but I don't know how can I check if a textarea is blank or it has something written in it.

I've tried:

if (eventfrm.EVENT_DETAIL.value == "&quot
{
alert("É necessário digitar uma descrição !"
eventfrm.EVENT_DETAIL.focus();
return (false);
}

then I've tried:

if (eventfrm.EVENT_DETAIL == "&quot
{
alert("É necessário digitar uma descrição !"
eventfrm.EVENT_DETAIL.focus();
return (false);
}

and also some other ways which I don't remeber.

please help

NiteCrawlr

 

[Ryock]

I used this validation and it's works

if (document.form.text_area.value == "&quot
{
alert("..."
document.form.text_area.focus ( );
document.form.text_area.select( );
return false;
}