Question

I am trying to extract the value from a textarea using jquery, but my debugger keeps saying that my variable questVal is undefined. Any ideas? Here’s the code:

approveThis:function(event) {
var thisId = parseInt(event.target.id.replace('app', ''));
var questId = thisId;
var questSelect = '#questID' + questId;
var questVal = $(questSelect).val();
$.ajax({
    url:"includes/php/whatifApprove.php",
    data:{ approving:true, idNum:thisId, questionName:questVal }, 
    type:"POST",
    cache:false,
    success: function(data){
        console.log(questVal);
        $('#testMessages').html(data);
    }
});
return false;

Answer 1

You really haven’t provided enough info, but in general that means when you do

$(questSelect).val();

it is returning undefined. You are not selecting what you think you are selecting.

I would put a debugger at the first line in the approveThis function, and step thru line by line, making sure everything is what you expect it to be.