Martin, Check out the Field plug-in:
http://jquery.com/plugins/project/field This provides the type of functionality you're looking for (of providing form values back for any type of field.) -Dan >-----Original Message----- >From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of mar10 >Sent: Thursday, June 12, 2008 3:17 AM >To: jQuery (English) >Subject: [jQuery] Best practice to get form field values > > >Hi, > >what would you consider the 'best practice' to access form input >values? > >Having an input field > <input value="New topic" class="inputEdit" name="title" >type="text"> >I could use > $('[EMAIL PROTECTED]').val() >or > $('[EMAIL PROTECTED]"title"]').val() >or > $('[name=title]').val() >or > $('[name="title"]').val() > >( >I also once observed, that the right side of the '=' was evaluated, so >it was possible to write > var x = 'title'; > $('[name=x]') >but i could not reproduce it today, so maybe I'm wrong. >) > >Of course assigning an additional id > <input value="New topic" class="inputEdit" name="title" >type="text" id="title"> >would allow for > $('#title') >but that appears to be somewhat redundant to me. > >In short I am looking for the most simple built-in syntax to access >form values, like prototype's $F(). >This means that querying option lists should return a list of selected >values (or texts), and text areas should work also. > > >Thanks >Martin
