I had thought these two were the same, but they appear to not be. I've generally been using $obj.attr("value") to work with form fields, but on the page I'm currently building, $obj.attr("value") does not return the text I enter in my field. However, $obj.val() does. On a different page I've built, both $obj.attr("value") and $obj.val() return the text entered in the form field. What could account