jQuery Page Widget How to - Get text value from Contenteditable div

Question

We would like to know how to get text value from Contenteditable div.

Answer


<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script type='text/javascript'
  src='http://code.jquery.com/jquery-1.7.1.js'></script>
<style type='text/css'>
div#foo {<!--from  ww  w. ja v  a2 s. c  o m-->
  text-transform: uppercase;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
$(window).load(function(){
    $('#foo').on('blur', function() {
        $('#log').empty().append($(this).html());
    });
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
  <div id="foo" contenteditable>foo</div>
  <div id="log"></div>
</body>
</html>

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