Get the value of a textbox during cut event

Question

I have trapped the cut event (jquery) on a textbox. What I want is to get the text on the textbox during the cut event is triggered.

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Answer 1

Hope I got you right:

In jQuery you could use something like this to see if a textbox is empty on every user's keyup:

var txt;
$('#textbox_ID').live('keyup', function() {
    txt = $(this).val().length;
    if(txt < 1) {
        alert("textbox is empty");
    }
});

This should work, because everytime the user releases a key and has the textbox focused, it checks if it's empty.