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I have one text box and have written "ABC" in the text box, but I want to obtain the text using jQuery

<input type=text value="ABC">

But when I use jQuery's .html() it returns null

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  • .val() you want to use Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 21:18
  • Input tags have no content as they are self closing. Thus text() and html() will return nothing. Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 21:19
  • @Enijar Quotes are optional Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 21:19
  • is this really hard to research online? Commented Jan 23, 2014 at 21:25

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Here's a FIDDLE

<input type="text"> <span></span> 
$('input').keyup(function() { $('span').text($(this).val()); });

or

$('input').keyup(function() { $('span').html($(this).val()); });
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