Get a Div Value in JQuery

Question

I have a page containing the following div element:

Some Value

How woul

Answer 1

your div looks like this:

<div id="someId">Some Value</div>

With jquery:

   <script type="text/javascript">
     $(function(){
         var text = $('#someId').html(); 
         //or
         var text = $('#someId').text();
       };
  </script> 

Answer 2

$('#myDiv').text()

Although you'd be better off doing something like:

var txt = $('#myDiv p').text();
alert(txt);

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="myDiv"><p>Some Text</p></div>

Make sure you're linking to your jQuery file too :)

Answer 3

You could also use innerhtml to get the value within the tag....

Answer 4

myDivObj = document.getElementById("myDiv");
if ( myDivObj ) {
   alert ( myDivObj.innerHTML ); 
}else{
   alert ( "Alien Found" );
}

Above code will show the innerHTML, i.e if you have used html tags inside div then it will show even those too. probably this is not what you expected. So another solution is to use: innerText / textContent property [ thanx to bobince, see his comment ]

function showDivText(){
            divObj = document.getElementById("myDiv");
            if ( divObj ){
                if ( divObj.textContent ){ // FF
                    alert ( divObj.textContent );
                }else{  // IE           
                    alert ( divObj.innerText );  //alert ( divObj.innerHTML );
                } 
            }  
        }

Answer 5

You can do get id value by using

test_alert = $('#myDiv').val();
alert(test_alert);

<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="myDiv"><p>Some Text</p></div>

Answer 6

You could use

jQuery('#gregsButton').click(function() { 
    var mb = jQuery('#myDiv').text(); 
    alert("Value of div is: " + mb); 
});

Looks like there may be a conflict with using the $. Remember that the variable 'mb' will not be accessible outside of the event handler. Also, the text() function returns a string, no need to get mb.value.