Debugging Ajax’ed JavaScript and jQuery val() calls

I develop a web application which displays data in a read-only form, and loads the edit form upon pressing a button

$(function () {
  $(".btnEdit").click(function () {
    $.ajax({
      url: '@Url.Action("Form", new { id = Model.ID })',
      type: 'post'
    });
  });
});

Now I needed to debug the JavaScript code loaded by the call to $.ajax(), but Chrome does not seem to display the loaded response in its tree of Sources.

An answer on SO provided me with the solution: Simply add the line

//# sourceURL=@Url.Action("Form", new { id = Model.ID })

inside a <script> block in the AJAX-loaded HTML. This will add the requested URL under the (no domain) node

Now that I have access to the source file, I needed to find all invocations of the jQuery val() function, since I was tracking down a wrong value in an <input>.

Again SO provided a solution, which I added to my code

(function($){
  var originalVal = $.fn.val;
  $.fn.val = function(){
    var selectorPath = $(this).parents().map(function () {return this.tagName;}).get().reverse().join("->");
    console.log("val( #" + $(this).attr("id") + " " + selectorPath + " , " + JSON.stringify(arguments) + ")");
    var result =originalVal.apply(this,arguments);
    return result;
  };
})(jQuery);

Now that the calls to val() were logged to the Console, it was easy to find where the wrong value was set.

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