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