Question

I have the following jQuery:

j(".refreshMe").html(html);

var something = $("li", html).length;

if ( something > 0 ) {
    j('.showlatest').slideDown();
}

and HTML:

<p class="showlatest"></p>

What I want to happen is,

if ( something > 0 ) {
    j('.showlatest').slideDown();
    ADD THE CONTENTS OF 'something' WITH THE TEXT 'NEW MESSAGES'
}

E.g.

<p class="showlatest">2 new messages</p>

I suppose I could define the ‘New Messages’ text as:

var newmessages = "New Messages";

But how can I then, in PHP speak, echo the results?

Answer 1

You can call the .text() method to set the text of an element, like this:

j('.showlatest').text(something + ' New Messages');