Retrieve Button value with jQuery

Question

A simple one, I\'m trying to retrieve the value attribute of a button when its been pressed using jQuery, here\'s what I have:

Answer 1

I know this was posted a while ago, but in case anyone is searching for an answer and really wants to use a button element instead of an input element...

You can not use .attr('value') or .val() with a button in IE. IE reports both the .val() and .attr("value") as being the text label (content) of the button element instead of the actual value of the value attribute.

You can work around it by temporarily removing the button's label:

var getButtonValue = function($button) {
    var label = $button.text(); 
    $button.text('');
    var buttonValue = $button.val();
    $button.text(label);
    return buttonValue;
}

There are a few other quirks with buttons in IE. I have posted a fix for the two most common issues here.