Question: I'm fairly new to Jade and am wanting to display some outputted data as the `value` value of a text `input`. Like this:

```
input(type="text", name="date", value="THISRIGHTHURR")

```

But only the value needs to be `viewpost.date`. I've tried multiple ways and none seem to work:

```
input(type="text", name="date", value=viewpost.date) // doesn't work
input(type="text", name="date", value=.=viewpost.date) // doesn't work
input(type="text", name="date", value=".=viewpost.date") // doesn't work

```

I of course can get it to work outside of an `input` by doing something like

```
each post, i in viewpost
  h1.=post.date

```

Am I supposed to loop through in the `input` somehow too? This is the JS (using Node and Express) that's outputting my `viewpost` variable.

```
// render show post view
exports.viewpost = function(db) {
    return function(req, res) {
        var id = req.params.id;

        collection.find({ "_id": new BSON.ObjectID(id) }, function (err, data) {
            res.render("viewpost", {
                "viewpost" : data
            });
        });
    };
};

```

Answer: 
Pug 0.1.0 (Jade 2.x) removed support for interpolation in attributes, so this works now:

```
input(type="text", name="date", value=viewpost.date)

```

See <https://github.com/pugjs/pug/issues/2305>
I realize this is old news, but I found that neither of these worked, and ended up doing it like this, for anyone stumped like I was: 

```
input(type="text", placeholder=data.string)

```

and then in a script:

```
$(document).on('focus', 'input', function(){
    var text = $(this).attr('placeholder');
    $(this).val(text);
})

```

thx