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praks5432
praks5432

Reputation: 7792

Getting all the children of an element that are textareas?

I have a bunch of text areas that are children of a div that has an id. I want to get the text in each of those text areas in an array - so is there a way in jquery to get all the children that are of a certain type(in this case text area) of a certain parent?

I've tried this -

$("#optionGroup_0").children('input[type=text], textarea');

but that returns an empty array. I think the above method would work if I had the right selector for a text area, but I'm not sure.

Can anyone help?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 256

Answers (2)

Nelson Benítez León
Nelson Benítez León

Reputation: 50643

You can do it like so:

var array = $("#optionGroup_0 textarea").map(function() {
  return $(this).val();
}).get();

See working demo

Upvotes: 4

Sparky
Sparky

Reputation: 98758

.find() is every descendant, where .children() goes only one level deep. See: api.jquery.com/find

$("#optionGroup_0").find('input[type=text], textarea');

Upvotes: 1

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