From 8e383cdfa231021ce906ca868e0041a71d843e77 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Vivek Kumar <35863227+techievivek@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2023 21:42:39 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Merge pull request #27217 from Expensify/techievivek_fix_form

[CP Stag] Return early if the value is empty or non-string

(cherry picked from commit 467f396625af24ffda0649371b25d57ad762f1b9)
---
 src/components/Form.js | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/components/Form.js b/src/components/Form.js
index 95c53b29e18d..ef6c3ea10474 100644
--- a/src/components/Form.js
+++ b/src/components/Form.js
@@ -140,11 +140,15 @@ function Form(props) {
 
             // Validate the input for html tags. It should supercede any other error
             _.each(trimmedStringValues, (inputValue, inputID) => {
+                // If the input value is empty OR is non-string, we don't need to validate it for HTML tags
+                if (!inputValue || !_.isString(inputValue)) {
+                    return;
+                }
                 const foundHtmlTagIndex = inputValue.search(CONST.VALIDATE_FOR_HTML_TAG_REGEX);
                 const leadingSpaceIndex = inputValue.search(CONST.VALIDATE_FOR_LEADINGSPACES_HTML_TAG_REGEX);
 
-                // Return early if there is no value OR the value is not a string OR there are no HTML characters
-                if (!inputValue || !_.isString(inputValue) || (leadingSpaceIndex === -1 && foundHtmlTagIndex === -1)) {
+                // Return early if there are no HTML characters
+                if (leadingSpaceIndex === -1 && foundHtmlTagIndex === -1) {
                     return;
                 }