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JavaScript

Nancy Melucci
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Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 36,143 Points
Posted by Nancy Melucci
Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 36,143 Points

Make variables out of form fields

I am trying to make two form fields, one that includes a date picker, into variables so I can pass them to a dynamic list. What is preventing them from being saved to variable values? There is some debugging code included (myvar, just trying to see if I could make any variable at all.)

<body>

<div class="content">
<h2>To-Do List</h2>
</br>
<ul id="listView">
</ul>
<form id="todo">

<input type="text" name="task"  id="task" placeholder="Add a task"/></br>
<input type="text" name="date" id = "datePicker" placeholder="Choose a date"/></br>
<input type="submit" id="mybutton" value="Add" />
</br>
</form>
</div>
 </body>
</html>

var myvar = 10;


$('mybutton').click(function() { 
    //event.preventDefault();       
    var task = $('task').val();     
    $('[type="text"]').datepicker();
$('[type="text"]').change(function() {
    var date = $(this).datepicker("getDate");
    alert("splunge");
    console.log(myvar);
    console.log(date);
    console.log(task);
});
});

2 Answers

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,172 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,172 Points

In an ID selector, the name must be prefixed with a "#" symbol:

  var task = $("#task").val();

Also, did you really mean to install the "change" event handler inside the "click" handler? As is, it will only work afte the button has been pushed.

Nancy Melucci
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Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 36,143 Points
Nancy Melucci
Nancy Melucci
Courses Plus Student 36,143 Points

Thank you. I will tinker with it later and make these changes.