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

Wrap the text in a span element, and change the text in the span.

    bar
    link


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$('#foo span').text('new text');

Edit:

Or use $('td.v3 a').text("new text") to change the text in the anchor, if that's what you want to do.