Question

How do i fetch the text within the div using id selector i.e [e-mail] in this case using jQuery.

<div class="g10 edit_trader" id="email_54">[e-mail]</div>

the following code fetch the value email_54

$('edit_trader').attr('id')

i tried using

$('edit_trader').attr('id').val();
$('edit_trader').attr('id').text();
$('edit_trader').attr('id').html();

nothing works.

thank you..

Answer 1

An id selector is prefixed with #. So if you wanted to get the contents of an element with id = email_54 you could do this:

var text = $('#email_54').text();

And if you wanted to use a class selector you should prefix with .:

var text = $('.edit_trader').text();

But of course in this case since you could have multiple elements with the same class you might get an array as a result.