`val` fails to return numeric elem.value

[vostrel]

When non-string value is assigned to element by:

.val(3.5);

and then retrieving the value back using:

.val();

I'm getting (in Chrome 7.0):

TypeError: Object 3.5 has no method 'replace'

pointing me to line 1589 in the latest 1.4.3. In there:

return (elem.value || "").replace(rreturn, "");

I'm not really sure if this actually is a bug or a feature. Either way my tests uncovered this issue.

I think adding an empty string to the elem.value would make it a string and while not hurting existing strings. But I may as well be missing the big picture here.

return (elem.value + "" || "").replace(rreturn, "");

Or are values required to be just strings?

Thanks very much for clarification

[vostrel]

Correction: when the value is assigned using val it kinda works - assigned numeric value is returned as a string. But hey, who cares, string to number conversion is cheap. It fails on assigning the numeric value directly to the DOM node using value property.

[rwaldron]

I cannot reproduce this issue with 1.4.4rc2

 http://jsfiddle.net/rwaldron/z2R4C/3/

[vostrel]

OK. Thanks