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jQuery, how to find an element by attribute NAME?

I found many example finding elements by attribute value BUT not with name. I want to find all elements (can be link, button, anything) with the attribute containing deleteuserid. I tried this:
console.log($('[deleteuserid!=""]'));
but this find "everything" which not even containing the deleteuserid attribute...
something like this: jQuery how to find an element based on a data-attribute value? expect that I dont have a concrete value (in other words, I want to find $("ul").find("[data-slide=*]");

Simply use deleteuserid instead of deleteuserid!="" like following.
console.log($('[deleteuserid]'));

you can use the jquery attribute selector to search by name.
console.log($('[name="deleteuserid"]'));

You can search by simple $('[name="deleteuserid"]')
console.log($('[name="deleteuserid"]'))
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<p name="deleteuserid">
</p>
<div name="deleteuserid">
</div>
<i name="deleteuserid"></i>
<b></b>

$( "*[name*='deleteuserid']" ).addClass('iFoundyou');
JSFiddle

Reference: https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/sel_attr_begin.asp
My demo:
All my selects have id="<f_field_name>"
<select id="f_type" />
<select id="f_employee" />
$('[name="form_monitoria_ligacoes"]').find('[id^="f_"]')

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

Javascript select element with complicated ID

need some help! am trying to get the value of the below input id "j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id63" and have tried jquery and javascript such as: document.getElementById("j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:3:j_id63") but keep getting a null result. ID can't be changed either, any help appreciated
<td class="sf42_cell_bottom_light"><span id="j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id61"><input id="j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id63" maxlength="200" name="j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id63" size="20" type="text" value="717474417"></span></td>

Use this:
$("[id='j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id61']")
By the way, since you are apperently using JSF, this is a good practice to set id to each component to avoid such horrible ids (who can changes if you add/remove components).
See more information in this thread:
Handling colon in element ID with jQuery

Do you have any control of the element? Can you add a class to it?
var val= document.getElementsByClassName("TheClassName");
Or you can get the TD with class sf42_cell_bottom_light (if it is unique) then get its INPUT elements by:
var theTd= document.getElementsByClassName("sf42_cell_bottom_light");
var val = theTD.getElementsByTagName("INPUT");
I need to see more of the HTML to give you an better answer.

You may need to escape colon in your id .So
try this
function RemoveInvalidCharacter(myid) {
return '#' + myid.replace(/(:|\.|\[|\])/g, "\\$1");
}
And call like this
$(RemoveInvalidCharacter('j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id61'));
Have a look at How do I select an element by an ID that has characters used in CSS notation

I have tested this code:
<td class="sf42_cell_bottom_light">
<span id="j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id61">
<input id="j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id63" maxlength="200" name="j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id63" size="20" type="text" value="717474417">
</span>
</td>
<script type="text/javascript">
document.write(document.getElementById("j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id63").value);
</script>
in FF, IE, Chrome (the latest versions)... and seems to work ok... ar you sure it is about this id?
Replace:
document.getElementById("j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:3:j_id63")
with
document.getElementById("j_id0:j_id2:j_id4:j_id54:0:j_id59:0:j_id63")
The id is different.
http://jsfiddle.net/wNePW/

How to erase the text input that the user typed using JavaScript

<div class = "search ui-widget">
<label for = "keyword"></label>
<input type="text" id="keyword" onkeypress="searchKeyPress(event)" placeholder="Search here" required>
<input type="button" id="btnSearch" onclick="loadDeals('search', keyword.value,'')" />
</div>
$('.search input#keyword').Value('');
Basically what I want is to remove the user's input in the text box after the user clicks another menu tab. I tried $('.search input#keyword').Value(''); and $('.search input#keyword').css("value", ''); but it didn't work.

.val() is the right name of the jQUery method, not Value().
You can use jQuery like this:
$('#keyword').val('');
Or you can use plain javascript like this:
document.getElementById('keyword').value = '';
If there are more input fields beside the ones you posted and you want to clear all inputs you can use:
$('.search input').val('');

Here's a pure javascript solution:
document.getElementById('keyword').value = '';

Since HTML id attributes are supposed to be unique I would recommend not using the '#keyword' id in your jquery selector. The solution does work if there's only one text field, but it isn't scalable to multiple text fields. Instead, I would make 'keyword' a class for the input element and use the selector:
$('.search input.keyword').val('');
This is very similar to the solution Sergio gave except it allows you to control, via the 'keyword' class, which input elements have their values cleared.

Use this
$("the_class_or_id").val("");
Link for this: jQuery Documentation
This is introduced in jQuery API. You can use .value in JavaScript, but in jQuery its val(). It gets the value of the object and to clear the value, just add quotes!
JavaScript code would be:
document.getElementById("id_name").value = "";

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