change the value of the input element
<p>the following code is costing me a lot of precious time, can anybody help me on this??</p>

<pre><code>&lt;div id="i"&gt;
    &lt;input id="Text1" type="text" value="hello" onClick="hello();"/&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;script&gt;
    function hello() {
        var x = $("#i").html();
        var y = $(x).val();
        alert(y);
    }
&lt;/script&gt;
</code></pre>

<p>in the case above the word "hello" is alerted each and every time, what if i want to alert the user input???
i.e. how do i change the "value" attribute of the input field????
thanks a trillion </p>
