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Asked: 2026-06-04T09:15:18+00:00

I have ended up unexpectedly having to debug some jQuery. Not really my area

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I have ended up unexpectedly having to debug some jQuery. Not really my area of expertise. The current scripts are looking for a value inside a textbox that’s been rendered by jQuery and failing.

Looking at the DOM in Chrome I can see that the element in question has a “FromDate” element underneath it. The Variables browser lists this as type jQuery.fn.jQuery.init[1]. It contains the elements 0: HTMLInputElement, context: HTMLDocument, length: 1 and some other stuff.

The value I’m after is inside the 0 object but I can’t seem to find the syntax to get at it. As far as I can tell jQuery constructing things as arrays, but doing this.FromDate[0] or this.FromDate(0) or this.FromDate.0 all yield the error “Property ‘FromDate’ of object # is not a function”.

How do I get my value?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Your variable is a jQuery object.

    To access the (first and only) DOM element contained therein, use:

    myObject[0]

    or

    myObject.get(0)

    If you just want to obtain the value of the HTMLInputElement you can use:

    myObject.val()
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