Question

I have a DIV tag as such

    <div id='idval'></div>

in jquery I have the following

    var data1 = '<b>' + Text for file + '</b>'

how do I use the .data to assign the content of data1 so it appears in the div tab

final result would be something like:

    <div id='idval'>
    <b>Text for file </b>
    </div>

Answer 1

You don’t use data, you use .html().

$("#idval").html(data1);

May be worth reading the documentation on data to see what it is used for.

http://api.jquery.com/jQuery.data/