Since while I cannot set the value of an input field with type=text.
Before, I always used something like this:
<input style="display: none" type="text" name="geo_poi" value="" id="geofeld" />
Then, in JavaScript i added code containing a line like this:
document.getElementById("geofeld").value = geo_poi;
This always worked. Maybe the new browsers don't want to support the method above anymore.
So using the following method for setting attributes worked fine.
document.getElementById("geofeld").setAttribute("value", geo_poi);
For situations when setAttribute does not yield any result (think HTML5 user/password input), consider this:
document.getElementById("geofeld").setRangeText("text");
HTML
<input type="text" placeholder="Item 1" id="item1" />
<input type="text" placeholder="Item 2" id="item2" />
JAVASCRIPT
$('#item1').blur(function() {
var item1var = $('#item1').val();
$('#item2').val(item1var);
});
Jsfiddle HERE