Question

I am trying to get plain text out of value stored in variable like this

var lb = $(this).attr("htmllabel");
var text = $(this).html(lb);
alert(text);

When the alert popup it give result as object[Object] but I was expecting the actual string after application of the function.

Can anyone help me in this? Thanks.

Answer 1

$(this).html(lb)

This line is setting the html of whatever this is to whatever is stored in lb. It then returns the jquery object for chaining purposes.

If you want the html of this then you just call $(this).html() with no parameter.