Title: Test for empty text field
Last modified: April 19, 2019

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# Test for empty text field

 *  Resolved [silversee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silversee/)
 * (@silversee)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-for-empty-text-field/)
 * Hi. Is there a syntax for testing for empty or no value in a field, or for a 
   zero length string? Just leaving the match value blank doesn’t seem to work.

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 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-for-empty-text-field/#post-11457739)
 * That’s weird. It should work..
 * [https://conditional-fields-cf7.bdwm.be/empty/](https://conditional-fields-cf7.bdwm.be/empty/)
 *  Thread Starter [silversee](https://wordpress.org/support/users/silversee/)
 * (@silversee)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-for-empty-text-field/#post-11458607)
 * Hmmm, okay, thanks for the response. I somehow missed this in the documentation.
   I will check again and verify, and maybe see what else might be going on.
 *  Plugin Author [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/)
 * (@jules-colle)
 * [7 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/test-for-empty-text-field/#post-11458618)
 * You couldn’t have found it. I just created that page. 🙂
    -  This reply was modified 7 years ago by [Jules Colle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jules-colle/).

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