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Phil Whittaker
Phil Whittaker

Reputation: 434

Jquery html() not showing textbox value

I'm trying to copy some html around a page and I wanted to use the jquery html() to do it. It worked well until I wanted to get a value from a user entered text box and the value hadn't copied.

I looked in firebug and the entered data wasn't shown in the value field of the textbox.

How do I get around this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1319

Answers (4)

Daniel
Daniel

Reputation: 37061

It seems that it impossible to get value using html(), use .val() instead

b.t.w if it is important for you to preserve the line breaks in html format you can do the following:

var textareaHtmlVal = $('#text_area_id').val().replace(/\n/gi,'<br />');

Upvotes: 0

defau1t
defau1t

Reputation: 10619

I think you are getting confused between jquery .text() and .val() functions

.text() Get the combined text contents of each element in the set of matched elements, including their descendants.

.val() Get the current value of the first element in the set of matched elements.

Upvotes: 1

tmjam
tmjam

Reputation: 1039

check this not sure if you are looking for this ? http://jsfiddle.net/MMJRk/1/

Upvotes: 0

nrabinowitz
nrabinowitz

Reputation: 55678

I think you need to use .val() to do this:

var textareaText = $('#mytextarea').val();

Upvotes: 2

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