Question

I have mulitple textarea’s, when you’re finished editing them i’m looking to retrieve the new text when the field doesn’t have focus anymore.

The solution i’ve been trying is

$('textarea').live('focusout', function() {
console.log(this.text);
});

or

$('textarea').live('blur', function() {
console.log(this.text);
});

Both return as undefined, due to it not knowing what ‘this’ is referring to.

Is there another event that can make this possible?

Answer 1

Use the value property (this.value) to get the contents. Even in JQuery, the .text() method doesn’t return the right contents of a textarea.

If you want to use a JQuery method:

$('textarea').live('focusout', function() {
    console.log($(this).val());
}