How do I get the value of a textbox using jQuery

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I can get the element like this     txtEmail   but I m not sure how to get the actual value

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There s a  val   method   If you ve got an input with an id of txtEmail you can use the following code to access the value of the text box       txtEmail   val     You can also use the val string  method to set that value       txtEmail   val  something

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Noticed your comment about using it for email validation and needing a plugin  the validation plugin may help you  its located at http   bassistance de jquery-plugins jquery-plugin-validation   it comes with a e-mail rule as well

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You can access the value of Texbox control either by its ID or by its Class name   Here is the example code    lt input type  text  id  txtEmail  class  textbox  value  1  gt     document  ready function       alert     txtEmail   val        alert     textbox   val      Not recommended        Using class name for getting any text-box control value can return other or wrong value as same class name can also be defined for any other control  So getting value of a specific textbox can be fetch by its id

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You can access the value of Texbox control either by its ID or by its Class name   Here is the example code    lt input type  text  id  txtEmail  class  textbox  value  1  gt     document  ready function       alert     txtEmail   val        alert     textbox   val      Not recommended        Using class name for getting any text-box control value can return other or wrong value as same class name can also be defined for any other control  So getting value of a specific textbox can be fetch by its id

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Noticed your comment about using it for email validation and needing a plugin  the validation plugin may help you  its located at http   bassistance de jquery-plugins jquery-plugin-validation   it comes with a e-mail rule as well

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Possible Duplicate   Just Additional Info which took me long time to find what if you were using the field name and not id for identifying the form field  You do it like this   For radio button    var inp     input radio name PatientPreviouslyReceivedDrug  checked   val      For textbox    var txt    input text name DrugDurationLength    val

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Noticed your comment about using it for email validation and needing a plugin  the validation plugin may help you  its located at http   bassistance de jquery-plugins jquery-plugin-validation   it comes with a e-mail rule as well

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By Using       txtEmail   val     you get the actual value of the element

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There is a  val    method that you can use   So in your situation you would want to use     txtEmail   val     Also  make sure you add the id property into your html code

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Use the  val   method to get the actual value of the element you need

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Use the  val   method   Also I think you meant to use     txtEmail   as    txtEmail   returns elements of type  lt txtEmail gt  which you probably don t have   See here at the jQuery documentation   Also jQuery val   method

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Per Jquery docs The  val   method is primarily used to get the values of form elements such as input  select and textarea  When called on an empty collection  it returns undefined  In order to retrieve the value store in the text box with id txtEmail  you can use    quot  txtEmail quot   val

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Use the  val   method   Also I think you meant to use     txtEmail   as    txtEmail   returns elements of type  lt txtEmail gt  which you probably don t have   See here at the jQuery documentation   Also jQuery val   method

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Possible Duplicate   Just Additional Info which took me long time to find what if you were using the field name and not id for identifying the form field  You do it like this   For radio button    var inp     input radio name PatientPreviouslyReceivedDrug  checked   val      For textbox    var txt    input text name DrugDurationLength    val

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Per Jquery docs The  val   method is primarily used to get the values of form elements such as input  select and textarea  When called on an empty collection  it returns undefined  In order to retrieve the value store in the text box with id txtEmail  you can use    quot  txtEmail quot   val

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Noticed your comment about using it for email validation and needing a plugin  the validation plugin may help you  its located at http   bassistance de jquery-plugins jquery-plugin-validation   it comes with a e-mail rule as well

User · Answer

Use the  val   method   Also I think you meant to use     txtEmail   as    txtEmail   returns elements of type  lt txtEmail gt  which you probably don t have   See here at the jQuery documentation   Also jQuery val   method

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Use the  val   method   Also I think you meant to use     txtEmail   as    txtEmail   returns elements of type  lt txtEmail gt  which you probably don t have   See here at the jQuery documentation   Also jQuery val   method

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There is a  val    method that you can use   So in your situation you would want to use     txtEmail   val     Also  make sure you add the id property into your html code

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Use the  val   method to get the actual value of the element you need

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By Using       txtEmail   val     you get the actual value of the element

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