Comments on: Quick and Easy: Use jQuery to Set A Text Field’s Value on a SharePoint Form

By: Ryan

Ryan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 12:00:03 +0000

Another example of this technique – also shows how you can get the javascript onto the editform.aspx without resorting to SharePoint Designer.

ashoo — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 22:19:25 +0000

Hi how do I get the value of a sharepoint field?

Andy Burns — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 12:03:39 +0000

I’ve done the same – Matching on “Title” seems to work pretty well for me too.

One difference is that I use .val() rather than .attr E.g.

$(’input[title=Assign Field With Space]‘).val(’You are in a twisty maze of passages, all alike.’);

.val seems to take the difficulty out of dealing with different field types.