jQuery text() example
jQuery text() is used to get the contents of all the matched elements; While text(‘new text’) is used to replace or set the text contents of all the matched elements.
For example,
<div class="TClass">TEXT 1</div>
<div class="Tlass">TEXT 2</div>
1. $(‘.TClass’).text()
This will combine all the contents of the matched elements, get “TEXT 1 TEXT 2” as return. Unlike html(), get the content of the first element only.
2. $(‘.TClass’).text(‘This is new text‘)
All html tag < and > will be replace with < and >, no html effect will be apply.
<div class="AClass"><b>This is new text</b></div>
<div class="AClass"><b>This is new text</b></div>
jQuery text() example
<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.3.2.min.js"></script>
<style type="text/css">
.textClass{
padding:8px;
border:1px solid blue;
margin-bottom:8px;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<h1>jQuery text() example</h1>
<div class="textClass">Text ABC ....</div>
<div class="textClass">Text ABC 2....</div>
<p>
<button id="getText">text()</button>
<button id="setText">text('xxx')</button>
<button id="reset">reset</button>
</p>
<script type="text/javascript">
$("#getText").click(function () {
alert($('.textClass').text());
});
$("#setText").click(function () {
$('.textClass').text('<b>This is a new text</b>');
});
$("#reset").click(function () {
location.reload();
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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Thanks for these tutorials they have helped me a lot. I’m using clone and appendTo to print out a form I’ve developed in JQM. It works fine on the desktop but Android/iOS tablets aren’t working. I want to rollup the form and either print it to a file and mail it from the tablet or print it directly from the table without using a 3rd party printer app. Is there any way to do this? I have the form rollup working w/ clone & appendTo but can’t figure out how to save it as a text/html/pdf file to the table itself, or how to print directly from the tablet by clicking a button. Is there a way to do this in Jquery?