How do I get a value of a span using jQuery

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This is basic   How do I get the value  This is my name  of the above span    lt div id  item1  gt   lt span gt This is my name lt  span gt   lt  div gt

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item1 span   html    Its working with my code

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lt script gt        document  ready function                     each     classBalence   find  span    function                  if    this  text    gt 1                      this  css  color    green                              if    this  text    lt  1                      this  css  color    red                     this  css  font-weight    bold                                           lt  script gt

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I think this should be a simple example       item1 span   text      or       item1 span   html

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VERY IMPORTANT Additional info on difference between  text   and  html     If your selector selects more than one item  e g you have two spans like so  lt span class  foo  gt bar1 lt  span gt   lt span class  foo  gt bar2 lt  span gt     then      foo   text    appends the two texts and give you that  whereas      foo   html    gives you only one of those

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id span   text   is the answer

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item1 span   text

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You could use id in span directly in your html    lt span id  span id  gt Client lt  span gt    Then your jQuery code would be      span id   text      Some one helped me to check errors and found that he used val   instead of text    it is not possible to use val   function in span  So       span id   val      will return null

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Since you did not provide an attribute for the  item  value  I am assuming a class is being used    lt div class  item1  gt     lt span gt This is my name lt  span gt   lt  div gt   alert     item span   text       Make sure you wait for the DOM to load to use your code  in jQuery you use the ready   function for that    lt html gt    lt head gt     lt title gt jQuery test lt  title gt     lt  -- script that inserts jquery goes here -- gt     lt script type  text javascript  gt        document  ready function     alert     item span   text            lt  script gt   lt  head gt   lt body gt    lt div class  item1  gt      lt span gt This is my name lt  span gt    lt  div gt   lt  body gt

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item1   text    or     item1   html    works fine for id  item1

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Assuming you intended it to read id  item1   you need      item1 span   text

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span id   text    worked with me

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In javascript wouldn t you use document getElementById  item1   innertext

[javascript] How do I get a value of a <span> using jQuery?

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