jquery get text from dynamically created input

Question

I have some code that displays the JSON and allows the user to edit the text. After editing, I want to allow the user to click a button to save the new input value. Everything works as expected except for grabbing that new input value.

for (let i = 0; i < jsonObject.results.length; i++) {
    var row = `<tr scope="row" class="test-row-${jsonObject.results[i].id}">
    <td id="fName-${jsonObject.results[i].id}" data-testid="${jsonObject.results[i].id}">${jsonObject.results[i].firstName}</td>
    // some code

    $(`#save-${jsonObject.results[i].id}`).click(function(){
      clickAButton(jsonObject.results[i].id, jsonObject, i);
    });

    $(`#fName-${jsonObject.results[i].id}`).on('click', editResult)
    
}

function editResult(){
  var testid = $(this).data('testid')
  var value = $(this).html()

  $(this).unbind()
  $(this).html(`<input class="result form-control" data-testid="${testid}" type="text" value="${value}">`)
}

function clickAButton() {
  var text = $(`#fName-${jsonObject.results[index].id}`).val();
  console.log("text from " + text);
  // code
}

the code above displays

text from

How do I get it to display the new user input?

Answer 1

Instead of writing mutliple event handler for all tds and button you can use only one event handler for button and td. So, when td is clicked just remove data-testid attribute from td so that again that event will not get called and to get input value use $(this).closest('tr').find('.result').val() this will give you input value where save button is clicked.

Demo Code :

 var jsonObject = { "results": [{ "id": 1, "firstName": "sas" }, { "id": 2, "firstName": "cd" }] } for (let i = 0; i < jsonObject.results.length; i++) { var row = `<tr scope="row" class="test-row-${jsonObject.results[i].id}"> <td id="fName-${jsonObject.results[i].id}" data-testid="${jsonObject.results[i].id}">${jsonObject.results[i].firstName}</td><td><input type='button' id='save-${jsonObject.results[i].id}' value ='save'></td></tr>` $("table").append(row) } $(document).on('click', 'td[data-testid]', function() { var testid = $(this).data('testid') var value = $(this).html() $(this).html(`<input class="result form-control" data-testid = "${testid}" type = "text" value = "${value}" >`) //removed data-testid $(this).removeAttr("data-testid"); }) $(document).on('click', '[id*=save-]', function() { //use class to find input var text = $(this).closest('tr').find('.result').val(); console.log("text from " + text); })

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