how to get values inside a particular textbox using jquery and store it into a variable using onfocus

Question

I have a textbox as shown below,

<input type="text" name="company" id="company" required />

My question is, I want to get the values inside the textbox using jquery whenever I typed or selected the values.

I have tried a lot but no effect. The jquery i have tried is below,

$(document).ready(function(){
    var input = $('#company').val();
    $("#tag").autocomplete("autocomplete1.php?str="+input, {
        selectFirst: true
    });
});

The above code has no effect. Is there any method. Kindly help. Thanks in advance.

you will check your answer on this link : [how to set textbox value in jquery][1] [1]: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4193916/how-to-set-textbox-value-in-jquery — Mukesh Prajapat, May 25 '15 at 08:02

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 25 '15 at 08:39

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You need to bind Jquery event on change like,

$(document).ready(function(){
    $('#company').focus(function(){
        var input = $('#company').val();
        $("#tag").autocomplete("autocomplete1.php?str="+input, {
            selectFirst: true
        });
    });
});

There are many other events you can bind, here is the official documentation of Jquery for that.

edited May 25 '15 at 08:39

Jithin Varghese

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answered May 25 '15 at 08:02

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Ioana Cucuruzan · Answer 2 · 2015-05-25T08:29:16.683

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Try something like:

http://jsfiddle.net/whxbLos4/

$(document).ready(function() {    
    $('#company').on('change : focus : keypress', function() { 
        //  this.value is what you need       
        $('#result').html(this.value);
    });
});

edited May 25 '15 at 08:29

answered May 25 '15 at 08:16

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 25 '15 at 08:05

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You can also use on blur to get it on focusout as an alternative as below:

$('#company').on('blur',function(){
      var input = $(this).val();
      //Other codes
});

answered May 25 '15 at 08:05

Guruprasad J Rao

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how to get values inside a particular textbox using jquery and store it into a variable using onfocus

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