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Asked: 2026-05-25T02:57:13+00:00

I’m very new to jquery, and I’m trying to make a dynamic form in

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I’m very new to jquery, and I’m trying to make a dynamic form in the following manner (and its not working). I want the form to have an initial value of “hello” as stated in the header region.

I understand that you can do this easily with html (with the value parameter), but I have a much larger goal in mind that requires the value to be dynamic.

Anyway, I just can’t seem to get it to work, so help please. Thank you.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html>
<head>
    <title>Logging In Test</title>
    <script type = "text/javascript" src="{{ STATIC_URL }}js/jquery.js">
    var value = "hello";
    $('#login [name=firstname]').val(value)
    </script>
</head>
<body>
<form id="login">
    <input type = "text" name="firstname">
</form>
</body>
</html>

Thank you.!

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  1. Editorial Team

    use $(document).ready(); http://api.jquery.com/ready/
    like

    $(document).ready(function(){
    var value = "hello";
    $('#login [name=firstname]').val(value)
});

    to set initial values after document fully loads and DOM is created properly

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