I'm trying to determine the selector for this form element:
<form action="/php/edit_images_reorder.htm" method="post" name="draglist_form">
<input type="hidden" name="new_order" value="abc" />
...
This is what I'm working with right now:
$("form > [name='new_order']").val(...)
I want to assign a value to this form element from a function. Anyone know what the correct selector is? Thanks!
I've just tested it and it works: http://jsfiddle.net/H2D8x/1/
$("form [name=new_order]").val("my value");
Regards.
That's the correct selector. Too short.
You were on the right track:
$('form input[name="new_order"]').val('This is the new value');
What wasn't working in your code?
try
$("form input[name='new_order']").val(...)
Or you could give it an id? easier and more performant.
HTH
I'd go with
$('input[name="new_order"]').val('newval');
But what you have should be fine.
What's your actual problem? The selector appears correct to me:
See http://jsfiddle.net/AP8VA/1/
I would note for consistency that you should have the quote marks the other way around - use double quotes to represent the attribute and single quotes to demarcate the Javascript string.
This is a better fit for HTML which strictly speaking should have double quotes around attributes.
