Question

How can I get the previous input value in the fiddle below? I get undefined unless they are in the same span.

<span>
<input type="text" value="48.00" >
</span>
<span>
<input type="text" value="44.00" >
</span>
$('input[type=text]').click(function () {
alert($(this).prevAll("input[type=text]").val());
});

Answer 1

prevAll finds siblings. Those are not siblings. The spans they’re in are, though, so:

var prevInput = $(this).closest('span').prevAll('span').find('input[type=text]');

Note that if you’re using prevAll, you may end up with multiple input elements in the result. Calling val on the result will only give you the value of the first of them.