Thankyou Jason, the problem was indeed in the html code. The code was
broken
into multiple lines and indented, by moving it all onto one line with no
spaces between the >< it now works. Also, when I tab or place the cursor
inside
the textarea, the cursor now is placed in the upper left corner, whereas
before
it was one tab furthor into the box, now I know why that happens also.
thanks,
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Jason Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 08/27/2002 09:24:35 AM:
> On Tuesday 27 August 2002 23:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > I have some error checking routines for my web forms, and they are
working
> > great except for one
> > field, a textarea field. I am using the following code, but it does not
> > give an error when the field is
> > empty:
> >
> > if (empty($feedback))
> > {
> > $errmsg .= "<font color='red'><li>You might want to enter some
> > comments</li></font>\n";
> > }
> Presumably $errmsg is not appended to because empty($feedback) is FALSE.
IOW
> $feedback is not empty, IOW $feedback contains something. What I'm
getting at
> is when trying to debug some code, use a liberal dose of common-sense and
> logic.
> Print it out to see what it contains. Most likely it's whitespace. To
convince
> yourself that it does contain something use strlen().
> > I use the same type of checking on input type="text" boxes and it works
> > fine.
> > Any ideas why it doesn't work on a textarea field?
> What HTML code are you using to display the textarea field? Make sure
there
> are no spaces and/or newlines in there.
> --
> Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.com.hk
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