Question

I am trying to do this

$('input').val($('input').val()+"^2");

so each input field in the page (I have only one field) will have two extra letters ^2

the strange thing is that it only append 2 and ignore the ^ symbol. any idea why this strange behavior occurs?

EDIT:
The problem was that there were another part in the code removes all symbols from the input field once they are inserted. So I changed it to ignore this symbol. Thanks guys.

Answer 1

Works for me: jsFiddle example.