Hi Jakecigar,
thank you for answering my post.
I made a simple fiddle of your solution above and must be missing something as it doesn't seem to fly.
if you have a minute could you please have a look. I tried very carefully to write the example correctly.
<input id="xItemComment" type="text" value="whatup">
</input>
<p class="ms-itmhover" iid= '985'>
my text spot 985
</p>
<p class="ms-itmhover" iid= '986'>
my text spot 986
</p>
jQuery(document).ready(function() {
var xItemComment = jQuery("#xItemComment").val();//get current value plus any edits to it
//jQuery("#ms-itmhover[iid*=xItemID]")
alert(xItemComment)
xItemID = 986;
jQuery(".ms-itmhover[iid*= '985']").text(xItemComment);//....
jQuery(".ms-itmhover[iid*= ' + xItemID + ']").text(xItemComment);
});
OUTPUT:
whatup
my text spot 986
TX
DAVE