Question

I have a text “First Name (Given Name, Forename):” that needs to replaced with “Something” using jquery. Please see below text.

  <div id="ctl00_m_g_23e3c2e9_71b9_464f_9ad3_46a603eb384f_ctl00_PanelSearch" 
               sizcache="3" sizset="0">
    <table width="100%" sizcache="2" sizset="0">
        <tbody sizcache="1" sizset="0">
            <tr sizcache="0" sizset="0">
                <td style="width: 40%;">
                    First Name (Given Name, Forename): //replace with "Something"
                </td>
            </tr>
        </tbody>
    </div>

How to do this?

Answer 1

If you put a class on your td (tdContent) you could do something like this:

$("#ctl00_m_g_23e3c2e9_71b9_464f_9ad3_46a603eb384f_ctl00_PanelSearch .tdContent").html("New Content goes here");

If you do not want to use a class make your selector

$("#ctl00_m_g_23e3c2e9_71b9_464f_9ad3_46a603eb384f_ctl00_PanelSearch td:first")

The simplest would be to give the td an id:

$("#tdID").html("content");