Textarea field validation

I have created a form in Dreamweaver Mac CS4.
I created text fields and validated them with no problem. But then I added a textAREA field and applied the appropirate SPRY validation for that type of field but it does not work. I made sure REQUIRED was checked and the PREVIEW STATE is also set to REQUIRED. But the form allows is able to be submitted even though this text area field is blank. If the ordinary one line text fields are blank however, the form is not submitted.
Any ideas why the textAREA field is not being validated properly?
Thanks,
Jeff

You must upload that file from your local site to the remote site. Select it and click on the up arrow on the toolbar at the top of the Files panel.
Each separate SPRY validation type that you insert on a page will require that you also upload two additional files - one is the CSS for that type of validation and the other is the js for it. You must have uploaded previously and elected to upload dependent files which would have done this for you.

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