Question

I have a text input with a label:

<li data-role="fieldcontain">
<label for="number">Amount:</label>
<input type="number" name="number" id="vitalamount" value=""  />
</li>

I’m now trying to change the label of the input, but the following code didn’t work.

$("#vitalamount").attr("label","something else");

Answer 1

attr modifies the attributes of an element not it’s sibling elements, you can use prev() or siblings for selecting the label and changing it’s texts:

$("#vitalamount").siblings("label").text('something else');