jQuery Toggle Text?

Question

How to toggle HTML text of an anchor tag using jQuery? I want an anchor that when clicked the text alternates between Show Background & Show Text

Answer 1

Why don't you just stack them ::

$("#clickedItem").click(function(){
  $("#animatedItem").animate( // );
}).toggle( // <--- you just stack the toggle function here ...
function(){
  $(this).text( // );
},
function(){
  $(this).text( // );
});

Answer 2

$.fn.toggleText = function(a){
    var ab = a.split(/\s+/);
    return this.each(function(){
        this._txIdx = this._txIdx!=undefined ? ++this._txIdx : 0;
        this._txIdx = this._txIdx<ab.length ? this._txIdx : 0; 
        $(this).text(ab[this._txIdx]);
    }); 
}; 
$('div').toggleText("Hello Word");

Answer 3

Use this

jQuery.fn.toggleText = function() {
    var altText = this.data("alt-text");
    if (altText) {
        this.data("alt-text", this.html());
        this.html(altText);
    }
};

Here is how you sue it

 
   jQuery.fn.toggleText = function() {
    	var altText = this.data("alt-text");

    	if (altText) {
    		this.data("alt-text", this.html());
    		this.html(altText);
    	}
    };

    $('[data-toggle="offcanvas"]').click(function ()  {

    	$(this).toggleText();
    });

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.0.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
<button data-toggle="offcanvas" data-alt-text="Close">Open</button>

You can even use html provided it's html encoded properly

Answer 4

Nate-Wilkins's improved function:

jQuery.fn.extend({
    toggleText: function (a, b) {
        var toggle = false, that = this;
        this.on('click', function () {
            that.text((toggle = !toggle) ? b : a);
        });
        return this;
    }
});

html:

<button class="button-toggle-text">Hello World</button>

using:

$('.button-toggle-text').toggleText("Hello World", "Bye!");

Answer 5

var jPlayPause = $("#play-pause");
jPlayPause.text(jPlayPause.hasClass("playing") ? "play" : "pause");
jPlayPause.toggleClass("playing");

This is a piece of thought using jQuery's toggleClass() method.

Suppose you have an element with id="play-pause" and you want to toggle the text between "play" and "pause".

Answer 6

You can also toggleText by using toggleClass() as a thought ..

.myclass::after {
 content: 'more';
}
.myclass.opened::after {
 content: 'less';
}

And then use

$(myobject).toggleClass('opened');