Home/ Questions/Q 8095507
In Process

The Archive Base Latest Questions

Editorial Team
  • 0
Asked: 2026-06-05T21:09:14+00:00

i have build a small function whose work to get value in alert box

  • 0

i have build a small function whose work to get value in alert box but i want to pick only 5 character from starting. here is my function

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.7.2.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">

$(function (){

    $(".hhh").click(function(){

        $(this).html()

    })
})

</script>

</head>    
<body>
    <div class="hhh">dd:ff:aa</div>
</body>
</html>
Share

Leave an answer

You must login to add an answer.

Need An Account,

1 Answer

  1. Editorial Team

    You could use the substring method:

    $('.hhh').click(function() {
    alert($(this).html().substring(0, 5));
});

    Obviously checking the length of the string before calling substring to ensure that it has at least 5 characters could be a good check to do.

    • 0