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Jquery code doesnt work on html output from Javascript

I have this Jquery function to mask my textbox:
jQuery(function($){ //Mask textbox #hour with placeholder
$("#hour").mask("9:99",{placeholder:"0"});
$("#hourInTable").mask("9:99",{placeholder:"0"});
});
Works perfectly with this html code:
But when I try to do it in the textbox that has the ID hourInTable outputted by Jquery it doesnt mask anything:
jqTds[2].innerHTML = '<input type="text" name="hourInTable" id="hourInTable" value="00:00">';
This above code is called after a button press and the textbox hourInTable is placed somewhere on the page.
Placed this code direct into my html:
<input type="text" name="hourInTable" id="hourInTable" value="00:00">
And it worked, so its due to the html output in JS.
Thanks in advance.

Most likely it happens because when jQuery does the masking, the input is not yet present. Give the function a name and call it after you are sure that the innerHTML is placed.

try something like this
jqTds[2].innerHTML = '<input type="text" name="hourInTable" id="hourInTable" value="00:00">';
// call after text box is added
$("#hourInTable").mask("9:99",{placeholder:"0"});
because #hourInTable is not present on DOM ready so it doesn't apply mask on it
call masking function after your dynamically created input is added

Add the masking code in function. And call it on button click which adds dom <input type="text" name="hourInTable" id="hourInTable" value="00:00"> in page.

What is innerHTML on input elements?

I'm just trying to do this from the chrome console on Wikipedia. I'm placing my cursor in the search bar and then trying to do document.activeElement.innerHTML += "some text" but it doesn't work. I googled around and looked at the other properties and attributes and couldn't figure out what I was doing wrong.
The activeElement selector works fine, it is selecting the correct element.
Edit: I just found that it's the value property. So I'd like to change what I'm asking. Why doesn't changing innerHTML work on input elements? Why do they have that property if I can't do anything with it?

Setting the value is normally used for input/form elements. innerHTML is normally used for div, span, td and similar elements.
value applies only to objects that have the value attribute (normally, form controls).
innerHtml applies to every object that can contain HTML (divs, spans, but many other and also form controls).
They are not equivalent or replaceable. Depends on what you are trying to achieve

First understand where to use what.
<input type="text" value="23" id="age">
Here now
var ageElem=document.getElementById('age');
So on this ageElem you can have that many things what that element contains.So you can use its value,type etc attributes. But cannot use innerHTML because we don't write anything between input tag
<button id='ageButton'>Display Age</button>
So here Display Age is the innerHTML content as it is written inside HTML tag button.

Using innerHTML on an input tag would just result in:
<input name="button" value="Click" ... > InnerHTML Goes Here </input>
But because an input tag doesn't need a closing tag it'll get reset to:
<input name="button" value="Click" ... />
So it's likely your browsers is applying the changes and immediatly resetting it.

do you mean something like this:
$('.activeElement').val('Some text');

<input id="input" type="number">
document.getElementById("input").addEventListener("change", GetData);
function GetData () {
var data = document.getElementById("input").value;
console.log(data);
function ModifyData () {
document.getElementById("input").value = data + "69";
};
ModifyData();
};
My comments: Here input field works as an input and as a display by changing .value

Each HTML element has an innerHTML property that defines both the HTML
code and the text that occurs between that element's opening and
closing tag. By changing an element's innerHTML after some user
interaction, you can make much more interactive pages.
JScript
<script type="text/javascript">
function changeText(){
document.getElementById('boldStuff').innerHTML = 'Fred Flinstone';
}
</script>
HTML
<p>Welcome to Stack OverFlow <b id='boldStuff'>dude</b> </p>
<input type='button' onclick='changeText()' value='Change Text'/>
In the above example b tag is the innerhtml and dude is its value so to change those values we have written a function in JScript

innerHTML is a DOM property to insert content to a specified id of an element. It is used in Javascript to manipulate DOM.
For instance:
document.getElementById("example").innerHTML = "my string";
This example uses the method to "find" an HTML element (with id="example") and changes the element content (innerHTML) to "my string":
HTML
Change
Javascript
function change(){
document.getElementById(“example”).innerHTML = “Hello, World!”
}
After you clicked the button, Hello, World! will appear because the innerHTML insert the value (in this case, Hello, World!) into between the opening tag and closing tag with an id “example”.
So, if you inspect the element after clicking the button, you will see the following code :
<div id=”example”>Hello, World!</div>
That’s all

innerHTML is a DOM property to insert content to a specified id of an element. It is used in Javascript to manipulate DOM.
Example.
HTML
Change
Javascript
function FunctionName(){
document.getElementById(“example”).innerHTML = “Hello, Kennedy!”
}
On button Click, Hello, Kennedy! will appear because the innerHTML insert the value (in this case, Hello, Kennedy!) into between the opening tag and closing tag with an id “example”.
So, on inspecting the element after clicking the button, you will notice the following code :
<div id=”example”>Hello, Kennedy!</div>

Use
document.querySelector('input').defaultValue = "sometext"
Using innerHTML does not work on input elements and also textContent

var lat = document.getElementById("lat").value;
lat.value = position.coords.latitude;
<input type="text" id="long" class="form-control" placeholder="Longitude">
<button onclick="getLocation()" class="btn btn-default">Get Data</button>
Instaed of using InnerHTML use Value for input types

change value of h:outputtext using jquery

i have one component OutputText , i want to change its value using jquery,
my component is,
<h:outputText id="txt_pay_days" value="0"
binding="#{Attendance_Calculation.txt_pay_days}"/>
thanks for any help...

<h:outputText> will be converted to <span> in raw HTML So,
Use id of the DOM and play with jQuery
${"#txt_pay_days"}.text("New Value To Set");

The <h:outputText> renders a HTML <span> with the value as its body.
<span id="txt_pay_days">0</span>
The jQuery .val() function works on HTML input elements like <input type="text"> only. The <span> isn't an input element at all. Instead, you need to use the jQuery .text() function.
$("#txt_pay_days").text("123");

try this..
$('#txt_pay_days').val('valueYouWantToInsert');

Accessing an array of HTML input text boxes using jQuery or plain Javascript

I'm looking to create a form which contains a dynamic number of input text boxes. I would like each text box to form part of an array (this would in theory make it easier for me to loop through them, especially as I won't know the number of text fields that will eventually exist). The HTML code would like something like:
<p>Field 1: <input type="text" name="field[1]" id="field[1]"></p>
<p>Field 2: <input type="text" name="field[2]" id="field[2]"></p>
<p>Field 3: <input type="text" name="field[3]" id="field[3]"></p>
<p>Field 4: <input type="text" name="field[4]" id="field[4]"></p>
<p>Field 5: <input type="text" name="field[5]" id="field[5]"></p>
This data would then be sent to a PHP script and would be represented as an array - or at least, that's the theory.
So my first question is, is this achievable using HTML? Are forms designed to work that way?
If the answer to that is "yes", how would I then go about accessing each of those using jQuery or failing that, plain old JavaScript?
I've attempted to achieve this using the following jQuery code:
someval = $('#field[1]').val();
and
someval = $('#field')[1].val();
and the following JavaScript:
someval = document.getElementById('related_link_url')[1].value;
But I've not had any luck.
Thanks in advance.
Edit:
I should note that from a Javascript point of view, I've had it working where the ID of each element is something like field_1, field_2 etc. However, I feel that if I can achieve it by placing each text box into an array, it would make for tidier and easier to manage code.

Give each element a class and access the group using jQuery:
<p>Field 1: <input type="text" name="field[1]" class="fields"></p>
<p>Field 2: <input type="text" name="field[2]" class="fields"></p>
<!-- etc... -->
jQuery:
$("input.fields").each(function (index)
{
// Your code here
});
This will run the anonymous function on each input element with a classname of "fields", with the this keyword pointing to the current element. See http://api.jquery.com/each/ for more info.

First of all, id attribute cannot contains [ or ] character.
There is lots of ways to get jQuery/plain JavaScript references to these elements. You can use descendant selector:
<fieldset id="list-of-fields">
<!-- your inputs here -->
</fieldset>
$("#list-of-fields input");
document.getElementById("list....").getElementsByTagName("input");
You can also use attribute selector:
$("input[name^=field]");
I'm not sure whether that's the only way but I think in plain JavaScript you'll have to fetch all input elements (document.getElementsByTagName) and then loop through array of these elements and check each element (whether it has name attribute which value starts with field).

Prototype - Element with styleclass in element with an id?

First of all: I'm new to Prototype JS Framework!
Until now I worked with jQuery.
In jQuery I am able to get an element by coding:
$('#myitemid .myitemclass').val()
html:
<div id="myitemid">
<input type="text" class="notmyclass" />
<input type="text" class="myitemclass" />
<input type="text" class="notmyclass" />
</div>
But how to do this in prototype?
I tried to code:
$('myitemid .myitemclass').value
but this won't work.
Can U help me plz?

Use $$ which returns all elements in the document that match the provided CSS selectors.
var elemValue = $$('#myitemid input.myitemclass')[0].getValue();
Also input.myitemclass is better than .myitemclass because it restricts search to input elements with class name .myitemclass.

If you want to get the named element myitemid, simply use $('myitemid'). This is equivalent to $('#myitemid') or document.getElementById('myitemid'). Your case is more complex, since you want to select a child of a named element. In that case you want to first find the named element, then use a selector on it's children.
$('myitemid').select('input.myitemclass')
Then, to access it's value (since it's a form element), you can add .getValue().
$('myitemid').select('input.myitemclass').getValue()

Should be faster
$("myitemid").down("input[class~=myitemclass]").value