jQuery add text to span within a div

Question

lt div id  tagscloud  gt          lt span gt  lt  span gt   lt  div gt    How would I do to add some text within the span like code below     lt span gt   tag cloud   lt  span gt   Edit  actually the span has an id   lt div id  tagscloud  gt   lt span id  WebPartCaptionWPQ2  gt  lt  span gt   lt  div gt

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Careful - append   will append HTML  and you may run into cross-site-scripting problems if you use it all the time and a user makes you append   lt script gt alert  Hello   lt  script gt      Use text   to replace element content with text  or append document createTextNode x   to append a text node

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You can use append or prepend     The  append   method inserts the   specified content as the last child of   each element in the jQuery collection    To insert it as the first child  use    prepend           tagscloud span   append second       tagscloud span   append third       tagscloud span   prepend first

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You can use       tagscloud span   text  Your text here      The same code will also work for the second case  You could also use       tagscloud  WebPartCaptionWPQ2   text  Your text here

[jquery] jQuery add text to span within a div

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