In my component, I have ui:inputtextarea field defined as below In my controller, I'm trying to call getElement method, but it's throwing an error. Here is how I'm accessing getElement
var linksTA = cmp.find("generatedLinks").getElement();What am I doing wrong ? why not getting access to inputtextarea, any guidance??
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Answered on Apr 24, 2021
For getting access value inside the inputTextArea. You can do that by accessing value attribute in your component.
Thus your code will be:
var linksTA = cmp.find("generatedLinks").get("v.value");
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