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rated 0 times [ 32] [ 5] / answers: 1 / hits: 31928 / 9 Years ago, tue, july 28, 2015, 12:00:00

I have a text box as

HTML

<input type=text id=lat placeholder=Latitude ng-lat value=9&#176;>

which works fine as it displays the degree sign perfectly, but when I try to set the value through jquery like

Jquery

$(#lat).val(9°)

Its displaying the entire text instead of the degree symbol.

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answered 9 Years ago jennie · Accepted Answer

You can target the value attribute:

$(#lat).attr('value',101+String.fromCharCode(176))

it is also better to use .text() to set the text because .val() is used to retrieve the value of an element