Hi Michiel,
It sounds like you're able to access the attribute using something
like:
var myVal = document.getElementById('#inputBox').defaultValue; //
similar to the w3cschools example
This is a DOM attribute rather than an XHTML attribute - which is why
the attr method won't return the value. For instance:
<input id="inputBox" type="text" defaultValue="234" />
Is not valid XHTML.
You can't access the defaultValue via the attr method because it's
reading from 'getAttribute'.
However, if you do need the attribute in your code, it's a simple case
of the following:
$('#inputBox')[0].defaultValue;
Since we're taking the first (and only match) element jQuery returned,
we can access the DOM attribute directly.
Hope that helps.
