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HTML
<input type="text" value="123456789" class="test" />
JavaScript
function prettify (num) {
var n = num.toString();
var separator = " ";
return n.replace(/(\d{1,3}(?=(?:\d\d\d)+(?!\d)))/g, "$1" + separator);
}
var $test = $(".test");
var val = $test.prop("value");
$test.prop("value", prettify(val));