jQuery detect if textarea is empty

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I am trying to determine if a textarea is empty if a user deletes what is already pre-populated in the textarea using jQuery   Anyway to do this   This is what I have and its not working    textarea  live  change   function                if   this  val   length    0                      submitButtonClass  addClass  disabled button                      submitButtonClass  removeClass  transSubmit                  else                       disabled button   addClass  transSubmit   css                        cursor   pointer                     removeClass  disabled button

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Andy E s answer helped me get the correct way to working for me     each   input type text  value      textarea    function  index  element    if     element  val         element  text         element  css  background-color    rgba 255 227 3  0 2             This    element  val   did not catch an empty textarea for me   but that whole bang     thing did work when combined with text

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each   input type text  value      textarea value      function  index  element                    only empty input and textarea will come here

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You can simply try this and it should work in most cases  feel free to correct me if I am wrong     function hereLies obj       if obj val                   Do this here          Where obj is the object of your textarea     x000D   x000D   lt script src  https   cdnjs cloudflare com ajax libs jquery 3 3 1 jquery min js  gt  lt  script gt  x000D   lt html gt  x000D   lt body gt  x000D   lt textarea placeholder  Insert text here     rows  5  cols  12  gt  lt  textarea gt  x000D   lt button id  checkerx  gt Check lt  button gt  x000D   lt p gt Value is not null  lt  p gt  x000D   x000D   lt script gt  x000D       p   hide    x000D        checkerx   click function    x000D        if    textarea   val           x000D             p   show    x000D          x000D        else  x000D            p   replaceWith   lt p gt Value is null  lt  p gt     x000D          x000D        x000D   x000D   lt  script gt  x000D   lt  body gt  lt  html gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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if       myTextArea   val             textarea is empty     You can also use   trim to make sure the element doesn t contain only white-space   if     trim     myTextArea   val              textarea is empty or contains only white-space

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Here is my working code  function emptyTextAreaCheck textarea  submitButtonClass            if  submitButtonClass              submitButtonClass     transSubmit                if   textarea  val                              submitButtonClass  addClass  disabled button                      submitButtonClass  removeClass  transSubmit                             textarea  live  focus keydown keyup   function                if   this  val   length    0                      submitButtonClass  addClass  disabled button                      submitButtonClass  removeClass  transSubmit                  else                       disabled button   addClass  transSubmit   css                        cursor   pointer                     removeClass  disabled button

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This will check for empty textarea as well as will not allow only Spaces in textarea coz that looks empty too    var txt msg      textarea   val      if  txt msg replace    s   s   g      length    0    txt msg            return false

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You just need to get the value of the texbox and see if it has anything in it       if       textareaid   val   length           do stuff

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if     element   val            code

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To find out if the textarea is empty we have a look at the textarea text content and if there is one sinlge character to be found it is not empty   Try   if     textareaid  get 0  textContent length    0        action     or if  document getElmentById textareaid  textContent length    0        action        textareaid  gets us the textarea jQuery object     textareaid  get 0  gets us the dom node  We could also use document getElmentById textareaid  without the use of jQuery   textContent gets us the textContent of that dom element  With  length we can see if there are any characters present  So the textarea is empty in case that there are no characters inside

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I know you are long past getting a solution  So  this is for others that come along to see how other people are solving the same common problem-- like me   The examples in the question and answers indicates the use of jQuery and I am using the  change listener handler whatever to see if my textarea changes  This should take care of manual text changes  automated text changes  etc  to trigger the    pseudocode   document  ready function              textarea   change function              if    trim     textarea   val    length  lt  1                     output   html  Someway your box is being reported as empty    sadness                else                    output   html  Your users managed to put something in the box                   No guarantee it isn t mindless gibberish  sorry                           Seems to work on all the browsers I use  http   jsfiddle net Q3LW6   Message shows when textarea loses focus   Newer  more thorough example  https   jsfiddle net BradChesney79 tjj6338a   Uses and reports  change     blur     keydown     keyup     mousedown     mouseup     click    mouseleave    and  setInterval

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if     trim    element   val

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