[jQuery] jQuery taconite val()

[jQuery] jQuery taconite val()

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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Arial'>I think I may be missing something in the jQuery Taconite
implementation. To clear a text field’s value I would typically just use </span></font><font
size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'>$(“#modify
input”).val(“abc”);</span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>  Using Taconite I expected I
would use </span></font><font size=2 face="Courier New"><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:"Courier New"'><val selection="#modify input"
value="abc" /></span></font><font size=2 face=Arial><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>, but it doesn’t work.  I’ve
worked around it by simply using </span></font><font size=2 face=Courier><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Courier'><eval>$(“#modify input”).val(“abc”);</eval></span></font><font
size=2 face=Arial><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> in the XML
response, but I’d like to correct my understanding as well.  What am
I overlooking?<o:p></o:p></span></font>
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font-family:Arial'><o:p> </o:p></span></font>
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