.val()

.val()

Maybe someone here can help me. I'm trying to use some jquery to do a work around for ckeditor/cf bind issues.

my form:

<cfinput name = "validate" class = "temp" type = "text" bind = "cfc:model.myfucntion({selectvalue})" >

and I have a select with an onchange event executing my jQuery.

in the jQuery function:

If I do console.log($('.temp')); I get the object 

example:
[input#validate.temp, prevObject: jQuery.fn.jQuery.init[1], context: document, selector: ".temp", constructor: function, init: function…]
  1. 0: input#validate.temp
..blah
..blah
value :  "the value that I want" <--- I want to get this so I can update the ckeditor with it.

but then I do:
console.log($('.temp').val()); and I get undefined.

if I do:

$('.temp').val('test');

and then do console.log($('.temp')); I get test. 

Any ideas?

Thanks