HTMLSelectElement: setCustomValidity() method

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The HTMLSelectElement.setCustomValidity() method sets the custom validity message for the selection element to the specified message. Use the empty string to indicate that the element does not have a custom validity error.

Syntax

js
setCustomValidity(string)

Parameters

string

The string containing the error message. The empty string removes any custom validity errors.

Return value

None (undefined).

Specifications

Specification
HTML
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Browser compatibility

See also