Javascript variable question

[TechBoyJK]

Ok, I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong here. I'm using the jQuery dialog UI module, and that works fine. I'm writing a script so that when someone hits 'save' on the modal popup box, it will close, and then do some work.

Basically, when someone clicks save, I want to capture what's they've written in the text box, and send that text to a remote function.

"Save": function() {
     $( this ).dialog( "close" );
 
     var caption = $("input##imageCaption").val();
    
     $.getJSON("http://mydomain.com/config/cfc/images.cfc?method=updateImageCaption&imageID=12345&caption=" + caption,function(result){});					
},

I'm just trying to declare a variable of 'caption', and set that variable to contain the contents of the textarea (id="imageCaption). This way, when I do the getJson request to update the comment, I can just append the 'caption' variable to the part of the string that defines the argument.

<textarea name="imageCaption" cols="55" rows="10" id="imageCaption"></textarea>

However, as of now, caption is being appended to the string as 'undefined'. Ideas?

 

[Ken g6]

Too many "hashes"?

IDs on your page should be unique, so you should be able to refer to this thing with just $('#imageCaption')

Personally, I'd avoid JQuery:

var caption = document.getElementById('imageCaption').value;

But that's probably just me these days.

 

[TechBoyJK]

Too many "hashes"?

IDs on your page should be unique, so you should be able to refer to this thing with just $('#imageCaption')

Personally, I'd avoid JQuery:

var caption = document.getElementById('imageCaption').value;

But that's probably just me these days.

Oh, duh, should have noted.

Those are instances where a coldfusion var is output. #cfmlVar#

Going to try your code now, thanks.