textarea's “required” attribute doesn't work even though the value is empty

Question

I created a simple page with list box and text area with conditions that all should be required.

List box are working fine, but textarea box doesn\'t tell that the f

Answer 1

I faced similar problem. I left space between opening and closing tag of Textarea as in following code

Register As:*

      --Select--
      Attendee
      Presenter


 ...
  

and in my javascript I was trying following

And I could not figure out what was the problem until I landed on this page. It was the space. Thanks @sinisake for the solution. Hope sharing my experience would help someone