Question

I would know if this is a bug… When I alert html content from #test, I get :

<input name="sum" value="" type="text">

whereas it was set to 55 just before the alert, and I can view it on the brower.

Can you tell me why ? 🙂

    <div id="test">
    <input type="text" name="sum" value="">
</div>

<script language="javascript">
 $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#test").find("input[name='sum']").val(55);
    alert($("#test").html());
 });
 </script>

Answer 1

This is not a bug. The value of #test is not part of the HTML content of the input — it was set after the element was inserted into the DOM — and thus the html() function doesn’t return it.