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Asked: 2026-05-13T09:42:37+00:00

What is the equivalent of this script in jQuery (if a was an HTML

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What is the equivalent of this script in jQuery (if a was an HTML element)?

a.value++; and ++a.value;

I assume it uses val(), but it seems inefficient to use:

a.val(a.val()+1);
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  1. Editorial Team

    jQuery is JavaScript, and both a++ and ++a work in JavaScript. I assume you are trying to increase the value of an input element by one – unfortunately there’s no shortcut to that. You just have to write:

    a.val(parseInt(a.val()) + 1);

    Remember to use parseInt, otherwise the current value will be interpreted as a string and the 1 will be concatenated instead of added.

    a++ won’t obviously work as in your case the a is an jQuery object.

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