Question

I have generated multiple text boxes using PHP with name="student[<?php echo $StudentID ; ?>]".

Now on a button click i want to change the value of all these text boxes using jquery.

How do i do this ? Please help.

Answer 1

You can use the Attribute Starts With selector, to look for student[ at the beginning of the name attribute:

$('input[name^="student["]').val('the new value');

It’s probably unnecessary to include the [ at the end, and name^="student" will be sufficient, assuming you don’t have other inputs with names like student_name or the like.

// If no conflicting named inputs, use
$('input[name^="student"]').val('the new value');