isn't that because you're still referring to the old value in 'meta'?
You need to call it again before you refer to it in the second alert: meta = $("meta").attr("content"); --John On 5/9/07, Glen Lipka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="200;url=http://jquery.com"> $(document).ready(function(){ var meta = $("meta").attr("content"); alert(meta); //results in 200;url= http://jquery.com $("meta").attr("content","500;url= http://commadot.com"); alert(meta); //results in same as first }); Good news. The first alert works. Bad news. The second one doesn't. Any ideas? Glen