ValidityState: badInput property

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 read-only badInput property of the ValidityState interface indicates if the user has provided input that the browser is unable to convert. For example, if you have a number input element whose content is a string.

Value

A boolean that is true if the ValidityState object does not conform to the expected type.

Examples

Detecting bad input

The following example checks the validity of a numeric input element. If the user enters text instead of a number, the element fails constraint validation, and the styles matching input:invalid are applied. The <pre> element above the input shows the validation message when the element badInput evaluates to true:

css
input:invalid {
  outline: red solid 3px;
}
html
<pre id="log">Validation logged here...</pre>
<input type="number" id="age" />
js
const userInput = document.getElementById("age");
const logElement = document.getElementById("log");

function log(text) {
  logElement.innerText = text;
}

userInput.addEventListener("input", () => {
  userInput.reportValidity();
  if (userInput.validity.badInput) {
    log("Bad input detected: " + userInput.validationMessage);
  }
});

Specifications

Specification
HTML
# dom-validitystate-badinput-dev

Browser compatibility

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Chrome
Edge
Firefox
Opera
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Chrome Android
Firefox for Android
Opera Android
Safari on iOS
Samsung Internet
WebView Android
WebView on iOS
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