HTMLInputElement has no method 'val'

Question

I\'m looping through cells in a table row. each cell has a text box in it, and I want to take the value of the text box and push it onto an array.

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Answer 1

.val() is a jquery method. Using [0] returns the DOM element, not the jquery element

var val = $(this).children('input:first').val();