Get the value in an input text box

Question

What are the ways to get and render an input value using jQuery?

Here is one:

Answer 1

You can get the value attribute directly since you know it's an element, but your current usage of .val() is already the current one.

For the above, just use .value on the DOM element directly, like this:

$(document).ready(function(){
  $("#txt_name").keyup(function(){
    alert(this.value);
  });
});