jQuery multiple textareas with different ids

Question

I have a page that contains multiple textarea elements. These textareas and the IDs are generated dynamically when originally rendered to the screen.

I know that the selector for the textarea have to be identical.

I can loop through my original data that I used to generate the elements to create a variable that contains the actual id of the textarea. But when I tried to do that I was getting an error.

This was my attempt:

for (i=0;i<=#.myglobals.result.length-1;i++){
var itemName = $.myglobals.result[i].id;
alert($('textarea#'+itemName).val());
}

What I ultimately want is to capture if the textarea has information in it and display
the information if it does.

Please let me know.

Thanks!

riwalk · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-26 19:09:24Z

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Try this:

$("textarea").each( function() { alert($(this).attr("id")); } );

This finds all textareas on the screen and shows their id in a popup.

answered Aug 26, 2010 at 19:09

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CaffGeek · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-26 19:20:05Z

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Like this?

$("textarea").each( 
    function(idx, item) { 
        var value = $(item).val();
        if (value) alert(value);
    } 
);

edited Aug 26, 2010 at 19:20

answered Aug 26, 2010 at 19:11

CaffGeek

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webdad3 Over a year ago

Both answers worked, however, this one did what I needed it to do!

Imran Javed · Accepted Answer · 2014-10-02 07:19:39Z

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Please try this code, hope this will help.

var thought = '';
jQuery("textarea.feedback_msg").each(function() {
    thought += $(this).val();
});

answered Oct 2, 2014 at 7:19

Imran Javed

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