No, that doesn't work, and I'm assuming it has something to do with the
forward slash being an XPath selector.

m.

On Fri, 2006-10-06 at 17:21 -0400, Wil Stuckey wrote:
> 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(){
>         >
>         >   var a = $("[EMAIL PROTECTED]'content/mytest']"); 
>         >
>         >   alert(a.val());
>         >
>         > });
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > </script>
>         >
>         >
>         >
>         > but it does not work. Thanks
>         >
>         >
>         >
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