Question

the following is my HTML DOM element…

<input type="text" style="width: 200px;" id="input1"/>

I want to keep the date value in it..But somewhere i need to specify that it is going to hold date value in the Dom element..

How can i do so..Please suggest me

Answer 1

Looks like you are trying to hide data inside the control.
An easier way would be to assign a css class to the element.

and jquery has lots of methods for retrieving the class names out of an element.

Or you could go with the html 5 standard for adding data like this:

<input id='ctrl' type='text' data-attr='date' />

Then you can retrieve the attribute value like this:

var value = $("#ctrl").attr("data-attr");