I am trying to use jQuery to fill in a form with some default values.
The form is contained in a div which has an id. In fact every element has an id, I did so just to be able to quickly select every piece of the form using $("#id")
syntax.
Here is the form:
<div id="panel" style="position: absolute; left: 190px; top: 300px; width: 400px; height: 300px; border: medium groove brown; background: none repeat scroll 0% 0% black; z-index: 100; color: white;"><form id="form_coord_0">
X <input type="text" style="height: 25px; font-size: 10px;" size="2" name="X" id="coordX_0"/>
Y <input type="text" style="height: 25px; font-size: 10px;" size="2" name="Y" id="coordY_0"/>
<input type="button" id="edit_0" value="M"/>
<input type="button" id="remove_0" value="-"/>
<input type="button" id="add_0" value="+"/>
<input type="button" id="go_0" value="go!"/>
<br/>
</div>
I need to set the coordX_0
text field with some value, let's say: 123
.
I thought I could do
$("#coordX_0").text.value = 123;
But it doesn't seem to work. Any hint?
You can use the val() function to set input values
$("#coordX_0").val(123);
Incidentally, your original code could be made to work by setting value property on the actual, underlying dom element. You access the dom element by indexing your jQuery results:
$("#coordX_0")[0].value = 123;
All the answers are the exact same so I thought I'd post something different:
var inputs_to_values = {
'coordX_0' : 'some value',
'coordY_0' : 'some other value',
'edit_0' : 'N',
'remove_0' : '_',
'add_0' : '-',
'go_0' : 'stop?'
};
$('#form_coord_0').find('input').val(function (index, value) {
return inputs_to_values[this.id];
});
You can pass .val()
a function, whatever is returned from the function for each element will be the new value:
A function returning the value to set.
this is the current element.
Receives the index position of the element in the set and the old
value as arguments.
Source: http://api.jquery.com/val
The above code expects that each input will have a property in the inputs_to_values
object so you can convert the ID of the input to the new value for that input.
Here is a demo: http://jsfiddle.net/zYfpE/
To set the value of an input field its
$("#coordX_0").val(123)
$("#coordX_0").val("123");
You need the quotes too I think. Although it might work both ways.
Try this instead, using the val
method:
$("#coordX_0").val('some string or number');
Just write:
$("#coordX_0").val(123);
In jQuery
, text
is a function to extract text in dom.
Use val
method to set the text of any input
field.
$("#coordX_0").val(123);
use the val function
$("#coordX_0").val("123");
Use this instead:
$("#coordX_0").val("123");