Question

I’m looping through cells in a table row. each cell has a text box in it, and I want to take the value of the text box and push it onto an array.

function dothing() {
        var tds = $('#'+selected+' td');
        var submitvals = new Array();
        tds.each(function(i) {
            var val = $(this).children('input')[0].val();
            submitvals.push(val);
        });
    }

Theres more to the function, but this is all that is relevant. For some reason, when I run this code, I get “HTMLInputElement has no method ‘val’.” I thought that input elements were supposed to have a val() method in jQuery that got the value so this makes no sense. Am I missing something, or doing it wrong?

Answer 1

val() is a jQuery method. .value is the DOM Element’s property. Use [0].value or .eq(0).val()….