Question

Im trying to alert whatever text is in a textarea (id=”status_update”) when the user hits enter:

<script type='text/javascript'>
            $(document).ready(function(){
                $('textarea').keypress(function(e) {

                    if(e.which == 13) {
                        var entry = $('#status_update').val;    
                        alert(entry);
                    }
                });
            });
            </script>

Alert bubble pops up when the user hits enter but the text says ‘undefined’. I think there is some issue with the way I am trying to define the var entry but Im not sure what the issue is.

Answer 1

Try $('#status_update').val()