Question

I have the following jQuery code:

$(myObj).val( $.trim($(myObj).val()) );

From my experience with jQuery and it’s elegant approach to common scripting tasks I feel like jQuery should provide a more elegant way to trim an objects value data. Is there a more elegant way in which the object is not called twice?

Answer 1

$(myObj).val(function(i, val){
  return $.trim(val);
});

See this example from the jQuery val docs.