jquery - check length of input field

Question

The code below is intended to enable the submit button once the user clicks in the textarea field   It works  but I m trying to also make it so that it s only enabled if there s at least one character in the field   I tried wrapping it in   if    this  val   length  gt  1          But  that didn t seem to work    Any ideas       fbss   focus function            this  select        if    this  val       Default text               this  val                 input id fbss-submit    removeClass               input id fbss-submit    attr  disabled   false              input id  fbss-submit    attr  class     enableSubmit            if      charsRemaining                      charsRemaining   remove                   textarea id fbss    maxlength                   maxCharacters  190                  status  true                  statusClass   charsRemaining                   statusText   characters left                   notificationClass   notification                   showAlert  false                  alertText   You have exceeded the maximum amount of characters                   slider  false

User · Answer

If you mean that you want to enable the submit after the user has typed at least one character, then you need to attach a key event that will check it for you.

Something like:

$("#fbss").keypress(function() {
    if($(this).val().length > 1) {
         // Enable submit button
    } else {
         // Disable submit button
    }
});

User · Answer

That doesn t work because  judging by the rest of the code  the initial value of the text input is  Default text  - which is more than one character  and so your if condition is  always true   The simplest way to make it work  it seems to me  is to account for this case       var value     this  val        if   value length  gt  0  amp  amp  value     Default text

[jquery] jquery - check length of input field?

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