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user1625066
user1625066

Reputation:

Jquery get form field value

I am using a jquery template to dynamically generate multiple elements on the same page. Each element looks like this

<div id ="DynamicValueAssignedHere">
    <div class="something">Hello world</div>
    <div class="formdiv">
        <form name="inpForm">
            <input type="text" name="FirstName" />
            <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
        </form>
    </div>
</div>

I would like to use Jquery to process the form on submit. I would also like to revert the form values to their previous values if something should go wrong. My question is How can I get the value of input box using Jquery? For example, I can get the value of the div with class "something" by doing

var something = $(#DynamicValueAssignedHere).children(".something").html();

In a similar fashion, I want to be able to retrieve the value of the textbox. Right now, I tried

var text = $(#DynamicValueAssignedHere).children(".formdiv").findnext('input[name="FirstName"]').val();

but it doesn't seem to be working

Upvotes: 90

Views: 426668

Answers (9)

OwnHome Charin
OwnHome Charin

Reputation: 1

<form id ="iMyForm" name="inpForm">
    <input type="text" name="FirstName" />
    <input type="submit" value="Submit" />
</form>

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var value = $('#iMyForm').find('input[name="FirstName"]').val();

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Just set "id" at form element, easy but powerfull.

Upvotes: 0

noone
noone

Reputation: 6558

You can get any input field value by $('input[fieldAttribute=value]').val()

here is an example

displayValue = () => {

  // you can get the value by name attribute like this
  
  console.log('value of firstname : ' + $('input[name=firstName]').val());
  
  // if there is the id as lastname
  
  console.log('value of lastname by id : ' + $('#lastName').val());
  
  // get value of carType from placeholder  
  console.log('value of carType from placeholder ' + $('input[placeholder=carType]').val());

}
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div class="formdiv">
    <form name="inpForm">
        <input type="text" name="firstName" placeholder='first name'/>
        <input type="text" name="lastName" id='lastName' placeholder='last name'/>
        
        <input type="text" placeholder="carType" />
        <input type="button" value="display value" onclick='displayValue()'/>
        
    </form>
</div>

Upvotes: 1

user3563774
user3563774

Reputation: 47

You can try these lines:

$("#DynamicValueAssignedHere .formdiv form").contents().find("input[name='FirstName']").prevObject[1].value

Upvotes: 0

Milan Krushna
Milan Krushna

Reputation: 315

$("form").submit(function(event) {
    
      var firstfield_value  = event.currentTarget[0].value;
     
      var secondfield_value = event.currentTarget[1].value; 
     
      alert(firstfield_value);
      alert(secondfield_value);
      event.preventDefault(); 
     });
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<form action="" method="post" >
<input type="text" name="field1" value="value1">
<input type="text" name="field2" value="value2">
</form>

Upvotes: 3

Lucas Moeskops
Lucas Moeskops

Reputation: 5443

An alternative approach, without searching for the field html:

var $form = $('#' + DynamicValueAssignedHere).find('form');
var formData = $form.serializeArray();
var myFieldName = 'FirstName';
var myFieldFilter = function (field) {
  return field.name == myFieldName;
}
var value = formData.filter(myFieldFilter)[0].value;

Upvotes: 10

davidbuzatto
davidbuzatto

Reputation: 9424

It can be much simpler than what you are doing.

HTML:

<input id="myField" type="text" name="email"/>

JavaScript:

// getting the value
var email = $("#myField").val();

// setting the value
$("#myField").val( "new value here" );

Upvotes: 62

Alex Reynolds
Alex Reynolds

Reputation: 6352

var textValue = $("input[type=text]").val()

this will get all values of all text boxes. You can use methods like children, firstchild, etc to hone in. Like by form $('form[name=form1] input[type=text]') Easier to use IDs for targeting elements but if it's purely dynamic you can get all input values then loop through then with JS.

Upvotes: 1

Severiano
Severiano

Reputation: 1093

if you know the id of the inputs you only need to use this:

var value = $("#inputID").val();

Upvotes: 1

Dipak
Dipak

Reputation: 12190

You have to use value attribute to get its value

<input type="text" name="FirstName" value="First Name" />

try - 

var text = $('#DynamicValueAssignedHere').find('input[name="FirstName"]').val();

Upvotes: 166

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