You can use the val() function:
$('#inputbox').val( json['results'] );
http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/val
There's probably a minor slow down since it's using a function rather
than direct assignment.
Karl Rudd
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 3:34 AM, s.ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I'm a tentative "switcher" from Prototype. Not sure yet... I'm porting
> one app to see how it suits me. One of the frequent things this app
> does is work with text in a textarea. Let's say the id of the textarea
> is "inputbox" ... I find myself writing code like:
>
> $('#inputbox')[0].value = json['results'];
>
> I understand why this works and the Prototype'ish version $
> ('inputbox').value = 'foo' doesn't. I'm just wondering whether there
> is a different, more idiomatic way.
>
> Thx
>
