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Get the value in an input text box

Asked 2010-11-03T15:07:17.340
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What are the ways to get and render an input value using jQuery?

Here is one:

$(document).ready(function() {
  $("#txt_name").keyup(function() {
    alert($(this).val());
  });
})
<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4.3/jquery.min.js"></script>
<input type="text" id="txt_name" />

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You can only select a value with the following two ways:

// First way to get a value
value = $("#txt_name").val(); 

// Second way to get a value
value = $("#txt_name").attr('value');

If you want to use straight JavaScript to get the value, here is how:

document.getElementById('txt_name').value 
answered 2010-11-03T15:11:31.573
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You can get the value attribute directly since you know it's an <input> element, but your current usage of .val() is already the current one.

For the above, just use .value on the DOM element directly, like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("#txt_name").keyup(function(){
    alert(this.value);
  });
});
answered 2010-11-03T15:09:04.703

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