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

If anyone came here trying to do this with a decimal like me:

myFloat = parseFloat(myString);

If you just need an Int, that's well covered in the other answers.