[development] Node limbo

[jeff at ayendesigns.com]

Scott, that was it! I have to admit I was a little dubious. I'm setting 
the value in jquery with $(myselector).val(newvalue), and thought, 
"There's no jquery .default_value"  ... so that the note was referring, 
of course, to the form setting. What I don't understand is (a) why the 
value was in form-myfield-#post-myfield when I used #value (so 
-something- knew about it) and (b) how setting the value differently on 
its way to the client can make a difference when it's being reset on the 
client side with .val()   The only thing I can think of is that when 
#value is used it's being marked as read-only in some way, and even 
though #post contains the new value, it's being reset to the original at 
some point.

Thanks again,
Jeff

On 04/24/2011 07:28 PM, Scott Reynen wrote:
>
> Are you perhaps setting your value on the hidden field with #value 
> rather than #default_value? There's a note about that here:
>
> http://api.drupal.org/api/drupal/developer--topics--forms_api_reference.html/6#hidden 
>
>
> "Note that if you plan to use JavaScript to change your hidden 
> element's value, you will need to use the #default_value property 
> rather than #value."
>