I ma really new to javascript but I am using jquery and the jquery cookie library. I was wondering how I can put the contents of an input text box into a cookie.
This is the code I have tried but it hasn't worked:
JS
$.cookie("location_input", "#lat");
HTML
<input id="loc" placeholder="Location" type="text"></input>
Is there something else stopping this from working or have I not done this bit of code correctly?
Your HTML is this:
<input id="loc" placeholder="Location" type="text"></input>
In order to get the contents of an input text box, you should simply do this:
var data = $("#loc").val();
and to set this data into a cookie, you need to do this:
$.cookie("location_input", data);
I hope, this makes things clear as why your code didn't worked :)
try this
document.cookie = "location_input="+$("#loc").val();
Using #loc, since it is the id of your input. $.cookie is useful when retrieving the cookie, not nessecary when saving.
You need something like:
$.cookie("location_input", $("#lat").val());
At the moment you are setting the cookie to the string value #lat, not actual value of the input.
Also I think your example has a typo, #lat instead of #loc :)
