jQuery get text as number

Question

This code doesn\'t work:

var number = $(this).find(\'.number\').text();
var current = 600;
if (current > number){
     // do something
}
         


        

Answer 1

Use the javascript parseInt method (http://www.w3schools.com/jsref/jsref_parseint.asp)

var number = parseInt($(this).find('.number').text(), 10);
var current = 600;
if (current > number){
     // do something
}

Don't forget to specify the radix value of 10 which tells parseInt that it's in base 10.