How to get Text from TextMeshPro input field

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 using TMPro;
 
 public class ButtonsScript : MonoBehaviour {
           public TextMeshProUGUI register_username; //drag and drop element
           
           public void getValue(){
                  string username = register_username.text; //here the value is "a"
                  if(username.Equals("a"){  //however here does not find it equal
                          Debug.Log("here");
                  }
           }
 }

I cannot understand why the string username is not equal with "a".even if i enter the string "a" in the input field.Can anyone help me?

Answer 1

Answer by nmill99 · Jul 03, 2020 at 11:33 PM

Here are a few things to make this work in version 2019.4.0f1

using TMPro;
GameObject inputField; // This should be the input parent field and not the child text field. See this post for more details.
string text = inputField.GetComponent<TMP_InputField>().text;

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nmill99 · Jul 11, 2020 at 07:57 AM 0

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Unity Answers changed the URL. I can't control it.

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Answer by OleIvanoff · Mar 10, 2019 at 11:08 AM

A bit old, but still @bigbosss Another forum answer was: https://answers.unity.com/questions/1562568/how-to-get-text-from-textmeshpro-input-field.html

You need to access the text of the TextmeshPro input field from the TMP_InputField class as TMP_InputField.text If you access the text directly from the text component it will not give the result you want.

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I2evard · Jun 08, 2020 at 04:05 PM 0

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LoloMiMama · Jul 09, 2020 at 01:12 AM 0

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StarArcher · Aug 28, 2021 at 10:36 AM 0

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To help clarify:

this.GetComponentInChildren<TMP_Text>().text accesses the Placeholder

this.GetComponentInChildren<TMP_InputField>().text accesses the Text

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Answer 3

Answer by Nick_Laza · Feb 05, 2020 at 04:18 PM

Instead of declaring it with TextMeshProUGUI register_username, use TMP_Text register_username; if you have a Text - Text Mesh Pro in your scene

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Answer by SmulDev · May 03 at 01:24 PM

using TMPro;

public TMP_InputField register_username;

string username = register_username.text;

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dadofsambonzuki · May 16 at 08:01 PM 0

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Excellent, thanks. This worked for me after spending hours trying to figure out why I had trailing zero width spaces!

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Answer by OrbitingOrange · Aug 02, 2019 at 12:04 AM

So this doesn't exactly work. What you need to do is grab the TextMeshProUGUI, which I would demonstrate but this apparently hates angle brackets.

There's a much more in depth explanation Here

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