What the difference between jQuery’s functions val() and text()?
Where would you use one over the other?
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.val()works on input elements (or any element with a value attribute?) and.text()will not work on input elements..val()gets the value of the input element — regardless of type..text()gets the innerText (not HTML) of all the matched elements:.text().val()