Question

My simple jQuery keypress script is not working.
All i want to do is capture the input on a textarea (id = story) and log the key that was pressed to the console. I want the character logged to the console to be the actual character that was pressed as opposed to the keycode. I had some confusion between keyup and keypress events, but i have tried both, and i constructed the code below based on the jQuery documentation.

<script>
$('#story').keypress(function()
{


    var txtInput = this.value;


    console.log(txtInput);

});
</script>

Answer 1

Try this

$(document).ready(function() {
  $('#story').keyup(function()
    {   

        var txtInput = $(this).val();
        txtInput = txtInput.charAt(txtInput.length-1);
        alert(txtInput);

    });
});