Using jQuery,how do you get the value of a form input?
How do you get the value depends on what type of input it is.
See related:
Text Input
Here is the HTML for the text input box and the "show selection" link:
For a text input, you can use: $('#TextBoxID').val();
In this example, I pass the name of the id of the text inputinto the function and "alert" the result. You could easily change this to "return" the value or assign the value to a variable.