How do I get a value of a using jQuery?

Question

This is basic.

How do I get the value \'This is my name\' of the above span?

This is my name
         


        
      

Answer 1

You could use id in span directly in your html.

Client

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.