Question

Is this code correct?

if(!($('textarea: name').val().length == 0)) {
alert("test");
}

I want to check if there is something written or not inside the textarea field in the form? I ask because it’s not working!?

Answer 1

if(!($('textarea').val().length == 0)) will work if you have only one textarea element in your page. I think what you were trying to do with that :name selector was select a specific textarea based on its name, in which case you need:

$('textarea[name=yourName]')