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whiteadi

val() gets the default value even if another value is filled

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in Using jQuery • 11 years ago

Hi,

I have a form with a input text field, a link, when I click the link gets the value of the field, but

as the field has a default value it gets that even if the user fills something else.

I get the value like this:

$("#input_email").val()

and the field looks like:

<input name="email" id="input_email" type="text" class="txtField01" value="Email Address" />

It works only if I refresh the page first, and that is not nice :)

Can someone help?

Replies(4)

rwhitbeck

Re: val() gets the default value even if another value is filled

11 years ago

Can you provide a little more of your code so we can see what else is going on?

whiteadi

Re: val() gets the default value even if another value is filled

11 years ago

yes of course:

in the head :

<script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery.fancybox-1.3.0.js"></script>

<script type="text/javascript">
	$(document).ready(function() {			
			$("#various3").fancybox({
				'width'				: 800,
				'height'			: 500,
		        'autoScale'     	: false,
		        'transitionIn'		: 'none',
				'transitionOut'		: 'none',
				'href'				: $("#various3").attr("href") + "?email=" + $("#input_email").val(),
				'type'				: 'iframe',
			});
			
	});
</script>

then I have the form where is the

<input name="email" id="input_email" type="text" class="txtField01" value="Email Address" /> as the only field ,

and the link to click and subscribe: 

<div style="display:block;"><a href="blabla.php" id="various3">Click to subscribe</a></div>
				</form>

oh, there is he href:
'href'				: $("#various3").attr("href") + "?email=" + $("#input_email").val(),