HTMLSelectElement: checkValidity() method
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since December 2018.
The checkValidity() method of the HTMLSelectElement interface returns a boolean value which indicates if the element meets any constraint validation rules applied to it. If false, the method also fires an invalid event on the element. Because there's no default browser behavior for checkValidity(), canceling this invalid event has no effect.
Note: An HTML <select> element with a non-null validationMessage is considered invalid, will match the CSS :invalid pseudo-class, and will cause checkValidity() to return false. Use the HTMLSelectElement.setCustomValidity() method to set the HTMLSelectElement.validationMessage to the empty string to set the validity state to be valid.
Syntax
checkValidity()
Parameters
None.
Return value
Returns true if the element's value has no validity problems; otherwise, returns false.
Examples
In the following example, calling checkValidity() returns either true or false.
const element = document.getElementById("mySelect");
console.log(element.checkValidity());
Specifications
| Specification |
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| HTML Standard # dom-cva-checkvalidity-dev |
Browser compatibility
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