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Posted by ChrisMBS - Apr 21 ’13 at 08:03

I'm trying to evaulate whether or not a multiline text field is blank.

I successfully used (fd.field('field name').control().value("")) for other text field. I did an alert on the field and it came back undefined.

What is the way to test for an empty multiline textbox in Forms Designer?

 

 

  • Dmitry
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    #1 by Dmitry Apr 22 ’13 at 01:00

    There are 3 types of multiline text boxes in SharePoint: plain, rich and enhanced. You can read how to get/set values for them in our blog: http://formsdesigner.blogspot.ru/2013/04/getting-and-setting-sharepoint-form.html

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  • JHMark
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    #2 by JHMark Nov 10 ’14 at 04:13

    [#1]: But how do you test for empty field (the user skipped it)?  When empty, my Multiline Enhanced Rich Text Field returns a value of <p></p>, but when I test for a match on that value, it fails.

    !fd.field('addcomments').control()._el().find('div.ms-rtestate-write').html()

    does not work

    fd.field('addcomments').control()._el().find('div.ms-rtestate-write').html() == '<p> </p>'

    does not work

    I only need to know if there was no user input to this field.

     

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  • Dmitry Kozlov
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    #3 by Dmitry Kozlov Nov 11 ’14 at 06:17

    [#2]: Hi,

    You can check whether the Enhanced Rich Text field is empty following way:

    if (!fd.field('RTE').control()._el().find('div.ms-rtestate-write').text().trim()) {
    alert('RTE field is empty');
}
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    #4 by JHMark Nov 11 ’14 at 04:46

    [#3]: This almost works.

    What does  trim()  trim?

    If I tab through the Multiline Enhanced Rich Text Field, it leaves a non-printable character in there; something that trim() does not trim.  This also happens when the form is refreshed.  End result is that !fd.field('RTE').control()._el().find('div.ms-rtestate-write').text().trim() is not reliable because it returns "false" even when the field appears "empty".

    If I tab back into the field, click backspace or delete and then tab out, I get "true".  it seems to clear whatever "character" is hiding there.

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    #5 by Dmitry Kozlov Nov 12 ’14 at 02:35

    [#4]: trim() function removes all spaces, tabs, and newlines from the beginning and end of strings. You can try the following function instead:

    fd.field('RTE').control()._el().find('div.ms-rtestate-write').text().replace(/\W/g, '')

    It removes all non-printable characters from the string.

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  • JHMark
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    #6 by JHMark Nov 12 ’14 at 03:45

    [#5]: That's the one!  Works perfectly, Thanks!

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  • retrogress
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    #8 by retrogress Jun 29 ’21 at 06:01

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