JavaScript is taking only the first word in a sentence

Question

am stuck over a small issue here.

I want to set the value of a input using JavaScript but jQuery is not displaying the full sentence.

var name = "Richard Keep";

But when I use try to do this

$('input#nameid').val(name)

to this input

<input type="text" id="nameid">

the value is set to Richard alone instead of Richard Keep. How do I make the jQuery echo the entire string and not just the first word in a string? Thanks

EDIT:

<td id="To_be_collected_port" onclick="requestPopup()" class="tr-selected">
   <div class="pop-td To_be_collected_port">
   </div>
   this is the content am fetching
</td>

This will display this only.

var str = $('#To_be_collected_port').text();

then

$('.xyz').html("<input type=\"text\" name=\"text\" id=\"selected-service-text\" value="+str+">");

Answer 1

You're missing escaped double quotes around the value attribute:

value="+str+"

should be:

value=\""+str+"\"

Fiddle - works now

Explanation of why it was displaying "this"

This means your input tag is effectively composing to this:

<input type="text" ... value=this is the content am fetching>

• value = "this"
• is, the, content, am, fetching = attributes without any value