Question

OK so I’m using a CRM on demand system, and a URL needs to be updated when a form is updated. The form cannot be referenced by ID for some reason so I need another way of getting the value=”THIS” out of it.

No Ids allowed! (Unless you know why) Thanks 🙂

The HTML concerned:

<input id="ServiceRequestEditForm.CustomObject6 Id" class="inputControlFlexWidth" type="text" value="THIS CHANGES AFTER UPDATE" tabindex="9" size="25" name="ServiceRequestEditForm.CustomObject6 Name">

Thanks for the quick answers. The reason I couldn’t select an ID was because it contained a fullstop.
E.g. EditForm.CustomObject6 needs to become EditForm\.CustomObject6

The answers are still very useful however.

Answer 1

You can use custom attributes.

<script>
    var value = $("input[custom=custom]").attr("value");
</script>
<input custom="CUSTOM" id="your thing" class"blah blah" type="text" value="VALUE" tabindex="9" size="25" name="blah blah">