Get content of textarea in time

Question

The following code always omit the last written character.

$('#input').keypress(function(event){
    var content = $(this).val();
    console.log(content);
});

input a -> output <nothing>

input ab -> output a

input abc -> output ab

etc.

Demo

I want to get the actual written characters in the textarea each time.

Answer 1

The keypress fires "too soon" for what you want -- you are always retrieving the previous character (thus never seeing the last character). One option, among several, is to use the keyup event.