Question

I have a script that writes a value from a form to a <td>, like so:

var num_rows = 1;
$(".add_menu_item").click(function() {
var value1 = $('#dealer_type').val();
if (value1.length) {
    if (num_rows == 1) {
        $('.dealer_contact_list').find('tr:last').after('<tr>').append(
        $("<td id='type'></td>").text(value1),
    } else {
        $('#type').attr('rowspan', num_rows + 1);
    }
}
num_rows++;
});

Now I want to write the value in an input field but still wrap it in a <td>. I have tried to do it like so, but can’t get it to work. Any ideas?

$("<input>").val(value1).wrap("<td id='type'></td>"),

Answer 1

You could possibly try:

$('<td>').attr('id','type').append($('<input>').attr('type','text').val(value1));

That should give you a td with an text input inside it.