Question

I am using jquery trying to retrieve the value of a text input but it is not working. can anyone see what I am doing wrong? http://jsfiddle.net/silvajeff/rJNLr/

<input id="mytest2" value="123"/>
<button id="findRow">Find Row</button>

$("#findRow").click(function() {   
  var theVal = $("#myTest2").val();
  alert(theVal);
});

I apologize to everyone, but what I initially posted was just a typo when I was breaking the question down to simplify it. I will have to repost again, only this time I’ll put the unsimplified code here. I’ll leave this question here though and add a tag for case-sensitive because I still think these were valuable solutions to others who may potentially have issues.

Answer 1

You have used wrong id myTest2 which is not present use mytest2. Javascript is case sensitive so you need to take care.

Live Demo

$("#findRow").click(function() {   
  var theVal = $("#mytest2").val();
  alert(theVal);
});