Question

I have a form and want to pass a value from it to my javascript – and use this value to create a javascript variable.

Im a newbie at javascript and cant get it to work.

Here is my code:

<input id="bartype" name="bartype" type="text" value="<?php echo $bartype; ?>" style="display:none" />

I want to grab the value and in my javascript create this var:

var type = $('#bartype');
var targetUrl = 'listing.php?page=$'+type;

How do I do this?

Thanks a lot

Answer 1

var type = $('#bartype').val();
var targetUrl = 'listing.php?page='+type;

Use google developer tools or firebug to debug javascript

console.log($('#bartype'))

You should go trough some tutorials:

http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials