jQuery's val() method change doesn't seem to change the DOM

Question

Doing $(\"#someId\").val(\"newValue\") doesn\'t change the DOM -- I can retrieve this value with $(\"#someId\").val(), but the element in the DOM s

Answer 1

.val() does change the DOM. For example this:

$("#someId").val("newValue");

alert(document.getElementById('someId').value);

alerts 'newValue'.

See DEMO.

If you want to change the default value to be used in form resets, try this:

$("#someId").attr("defaultValue", "newValue");

See DEMO.