[thelist] [JS] Truly checking for empty fields

Stephen Rider evolt_org at striderweb.com
Thu Apr 15 09:56:13 CDT 2004


Okay, but doesn't deleting all spaces jam words together?

I would think that trimming the value would be the better solution.

Steve


On Apr 9, 2004, at 12:23 PM, Edwin Horneij wrote:

> This deletes all space characters from a form field's value and checks 
> to see if the resulting string is empty. I think I got it's from the 
> O'Reilly JS mega-ref.
>
> if ( myform.myfield.value.replace( /\s/g, '' ) == '' ) {
> 	...
> 	return false;
> }



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