Setting the value of the textfield in sharepoint list form 2010

Question

I have a textfield in sharepoint list form and I want to set the value using jquery or javascript below is the tag:

<asp:TextBox runat="server" id="ff47{$Pos}" text="{@Name}" __designer:bind="{ddwrt:DataBind('i',concat('ff47',$Pos),'Text','TextChanged','ID',ddwrt:EscapeDelims(string(@ID)),'@Name')}" />

I am using this to set var ele = $("input[title='Name']").val("Bob"); but it is not setting the value, any suggestions?

Answer 1

Could you post the exact rendered Html? I ask this because usually id and name attribute value contain a crappy generated string. You could try a wildcard in your selector:

var ele = $("input[title='*Name']").val("Bob"); // notice the *

Answer 2

Try this instead:

$("input[value='Name']").val("Bob");

Answer 3

You need to Inspect that particular textbox with FireBug or IE Developer tools. If I am right the asp:Textbox is internally converted to an input control which will have a unique attibute. You can use this attribute to pickup the input with JavaScript/jQuery and set the value.

From what I can gather, you are setting the id and the text dynamically by using placeholder variables. I would inspect these two attributes and reference the input field by using one of them.