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    copied!<p>When the user selects from a drop down box, I want to change the value of an input field to a jquery object, which is a span element from another page. This is working fine when I append to #myDiv; the span element shows up. However, I am trying to change a text input value, and this shows "Object object" on select change. I don't understand this inconsistency. How can I get the value to change correctly, as #myDiv does? Thank you.</p> <pre><code>&lt;script&gt; function schedule(selectedValue){ var selectedValue = selectedValue - 1; $.get('/file.xml', function(data) { var $slides = $(data).find('span.desctext'), selectedslide = $slides.eq(selectedValue); $('#myDiv').append(selectedslide); $("#fvdescription").val(selectedslide); }); } &lt;/script&gt; </code></pre> <p>HTML:</p> <pre><code>&lt;form action="preview.php" method="post"&gt; Action: &lt;select name="whichslide" onchange="schedule(this.value)"&gt; &lt;option value="ab"&gt;Add &amp; Bump&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="1"&gt;1&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="2"&gt;2&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="3"&gt;3&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="4"&gt;4&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="5"&gt;5&lt;/option&gt; &lt;option value="6"&gt;6&lt;/option&gt;&lt;/select&gt;&lt;br /&gt; Year: &lt;input type="text" name="year" size="3"&gt; &lt;br&gt; URL: &lt;input type="text" name="url" size="35"&gt; &lt;br&gt; Description: &lt;input type="text" name="description" id="fvdescription" size="75" value="Description goes here"&gt; &lt;br&gt; &lt;input type="submit" name="preview" value="Preview"&gt; </code></pre>
 

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