Question

I have a string of HTML contained in a var called “content”. The string of HTML contains a span with an id, eg:

<span id="valuespan">This is the value of a text box</span>

I want to use whatever is contained between the span tags as a value for a check box, but im not really sure how to do this.

Can anyone help me out?

Thanks!

Answer 1

This assumes the span string is not in the page. I wrapped the content variable in an extra div which assures can use find regardless of what level of html hirarchy the span is on

DEMO: http://jsfiddle.net/8WZJT/

var content='<span id="valuespan">This is the value of a text box</span>';

$('#test').val($('<div>').append(content).find('#valuespan').text()).click(function(){
    alert($(this).val())
})