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(){
> 
>   var a = $("[EMAIL PROTECTED]'content/mytest']");
> 
>   alert(a.val());
> 
> });
> 
> 
> 
> </script>
> 
> 
> 
> but it does not work. Thanks
> 
> 
> 
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