couldn't you just do:

$('#foo/bar').val();

?

-wil

On 10/6/06, Matt Grimm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Your problem is that you prefixed the input selector with "#". This
works:

$('[EMAIL PROTECTED]/bar]').val();

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 15:00 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if I have a form like
>
>
>
> <form>
>
> <input type="text" value="test" id="content/mytest"/>
>
> </form>
>
>
>
> How can I get the value for the input text field using jquery?
>
> I tried
>
>
>
> <script type="text/_javascript_">
>
>
>
> $(document).ready(function(){
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>   var a = $("[EMAIL PROTECTED]'content/mytest']");
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>   alert(a.val());
>
> });
>
>
>
> </script>
>
>
>
> but it does not work. Thanks
>
>
>
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