Question

How to get the value of span tag based on css class in jquery?

<span class="page-numbers current">3</span>

I used

var pageno = $(".page-numbers current").val();
  alert(pageno);

it doesnt seem to work.any suggestion..

EDIT:i am using jquery pagination plugin for pagination… for first page 1 and prev are assigned css class class="page-numbers current

<span class="page-numbers current prev">Prev</span>
<span class="page-numbers current">1</span>

Answer 1

“.page-numbers” and “current” are 2 different css classes.

Your jQuery expects “current” to be inside of “.page-numbers”.

Also use text() for non-input elements.

This should work

alert($(".page-numbers").text());

EDIT: Furthermore, current hasn’t got a class (.) or id (#) prefix which means it’s looking for an element “current”, which doesn’t exist. Use #current or .current