Question

Struck with a simple issue of hidden field like this:

      <input id="hid" type="hidden" name="hid" runat="server"/>

trying to retrieve like this

      var rid = $("#hid").val();
      alert(rid);

But still am getting undefined value in the alert. Browser used : chrome

Answer 1

Its working for me. Here is the JSFiddle. http://jsfiddle.net/P5r9N/

HTML

<input id="hid" type="hidden" name="hid" runat="server" value="working"/>

jQuery

var rid = $("#hid").val(); 
alert(rid);