jQuery .attr('value', 'new_value') not working?

Question

I am trying to dynamically change the actual HTML value attribute of an input using jQuery. Although using input.attr(\'value\', \'myNewVal\'); wor

Answer 1

It won't change the value in the DOM explorer of most development tools. But JavaScript will still get the current values. So

var newValue = 'new';
$(sel).val(newValue);
newValue == $(sel).val(); // true