jquery to get the value of a hidden input - Google Search

jquery to get the value of a hidden input - Google Search

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4376664/jquery-access-input-hidden-value

You can access hidden fields' values with val(), just like you can do on any other input element:

<input type="hidden" id="foo" name="zyx" value="bar" />

alert($('input#foo').val());
alert($('input[name=zyx]').val());
alert($('input[type=hidden]').val());

Those all mean the same thing in this example.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3091374/get-value-from-hidden-field-jquery

javascript how to coerce variable to string type - Google Search
http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_string.asp

The String() function is supported in all major browsers.

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Tips and Notes

Note: The String() function returns the same value as toString() of the individual objects.

<script type="text/javascript">

var test1 = new Boolean(1);
var test2 = new Boolean(0);
var test3 = new Boolean(true);
var test4 = new Boolean(false);
var test5 = new Date();
var test6 = new String("999 888");
var test7 = 12345;

document.write(String(test1)+ "<br />");
document.write(String(test2)+ "<br />");
document.write(String(test3)+ "<br />");
document.write(String(test4)+ "<br />");
document.write(String(test5)+ "<br />");
document.write(String(test6)+ "<br />");
document.write(String(test7)+ "<br />");

</script>