JQuery val() does not work for textarea in Opera

Question

I am displaying a modal dialog using jQuery. This dialog has a textarea control on it. But while submitting this dialog, the value of this textarea

Answer 1

Have you tried .attr("text") or .attr("value")? I'm unable to test this but this would seem logical to me.

If it doesn't then let me know and I'll remove this answer.

Answer 2

In opera for getting the value or a textarea works only:

document.getElementById("description").value;

strange is that $("textara#description").val("") works (set method)

Answer 3

Select <textarea> by attribute name instead of id.

<textarea id="txtDescription" name="txtDescription"></textarea>
<script>
  jQuery("textarea[name='txtDescription']").val();
</script>

Answer 4

you may have come across a very obscure bug referred to in a blog post on the Opera sitepatching blog 1 as "PATCH-287, Hack to make script see typed value in TEXTAREA on blog.ebuddy.com. Opera fails to read correct value from a previously hidden textarea".

I'm a little bit reluctant to recomment workarounds without seeing the full code though.

Answer 5

I use this workaround:

if (window.opera)
{
  document.addEventListener('focus', function(event){
    if (event.target instanceof HTMLTextAreaElement)
    {
      event.target.contentEditable = true;
      event.target.contentEditable = false;
    }
  }, true);
}

Answer 6

Good day people,

I too have the same problem with Opera 10.63 and Windows.

The hack suggested by Javier Canizalez works, but only as long as I don't reuse the dialog (and the textarea) again. However, this is not the case. With his hack, after the page is loaded and I click on an item, I display a dialog that was previously hidden (display:none) with textarea inside it. Everything works fine the first time (with the hack). After closing the dialog /* $(dialog).hide()); */ and reusing it again by clicking on another item, the hack does not work anymore and javascript/jQuery does not get the new typed value anymore until a full page reload.

I found at one of the links given above that the guys at opera have fixed that problem: PATCH-287 But it does not seems fixed to me :) I wrote a question there and will see if they'll reply: opera patch-287

Has someone managed to get a workaround this?

Thank you and best regards.