Question

I tried searching the related posts, and having a hard time figuring out how to fix my query – I’m pretty close, any help is much appreciated (new to Jquery).

I program in PHP, and trying to pull either the HREF value from a tag, or the text. Either will work.

I basically have my HTML code in a string, might contain multiple tags, and would like to load the text of the tags into either a PHP array or variable (right now just trying to ALERT the results, I can dump it later).

My PHP Code:

<?php
$info = '<li><strong><a href="http://www.mysite.com/test.html" title="Some stuff">I want this text</a></strong>';

echo '<script type="text/javascript">';
echo '$("document").ready( function () {';
echo 'alert($("a", $("' . $info . '")).html());';
echo '});';
echo '</script>';
?>

The above doesn’t alert anything. Putting in

echo 'alert("yes")'; 

does work, so I’m guessing there’s something basic wrong with my syntax, but 4 hours later still unable to find it! 🙂

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

SLaks has the rest of your problem. But also, it’s not:

$("document").ready();

It’s:

$(document).ready();

The former is a selector for a tag named <document>.