jQuery change child text

Question

I have a jquery function that changes a text inside a element using a jquery \"text\" function. Inside this td element is child \"a\" tag like this.

Answer 1

If you have:

     text to change
 

Then in your function you should have something like this:

$("td.v3").children("a").text("new text");

However, this will select all links that are direct children of tds with class .v3. Adding a .first() after children should help:

$("td.v3").children("a").first().text("new text");