Jquery - replace text in Val()

jquery, replace

Solution

You can pass a function to `.val()` in 1.4+ like this:

$("#mySelector").val(function(i, v) { //index, current value
  return v.replace("#","Custom Text");
});

Problem

I'm trying to replace parts of a Val() in jquery with some text but am not sure how to do this. `$(this).val()` returns "# number of...." - I would like to replace `#` with custom text, but Val doesn't seem to have a `replace()` function. I'm quite new to JQuery, so I might be missing something obvious. Thanks for any help

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