From b4120ec570624ae4c66269ae2a8f916ec55734e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jason Grout <jgrout6@bloomberg.net>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2017 18:05:01 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Add a value trait to Value widgets.

---
 ipywidgets/widgets/valuewidget.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ipywidgets/widgets/valuewidget.py b/ipywidgets/widgets/valuewidget.py
index 28263bfce6..2385763192 100644
--- a/ipywidgets/widgets/valuewidget.py
+++ b/ipywidgets/widgets/valuewidget.py
@@ -4,11 +4,14 @@
 """Contains the ValueWidget class"""
 
 from .widget import Widget
+from traitlets import Any
 
 
 class ValueWidget(Widget):
     """Widget that can be used for the input of an interactive function"""
 
+    value = Any(help="The value of the widget.")
+
     def get_interact_value(self):
         """Return the value for this widget which should be passed to
         interactive functions. Custom widgets can change this method