Question

How can I get the current text of a textbox in the keydown event handler. Calling element.get(‘value’) returns the text that was in the textbox before the event happened. How can I get the current value in the event handler?

Answer 1

Just use keyup event instead 🙂

$('yourTextarea').addEvent('keyup', function() {

    var value = this.get('value');
    console.log('value');

});