Question

I have the following link HTML:

  <a href="#" onclick="run(1); return false;" class="link" title="Remove item">[x]</a>

and i want to use jquery to change this to be

  <a href="#" onclick="run(1); return false;" class="link" title="Remove item">[x] Remove Item</a>

I want to keep the link and all of the attributes but change the text inside the link

Answer 1

You can get the text in the link with the text() function and set it back with the text(String) function like this:

 $(".link").text($(".link").text() + " Remove Item");

And you can give your link a unique id if you wish to target just a single link rather than all elements with .link class.