Question

I’m having difficulty replacing the text of a link with new text.

I have the following line

$('#myLink').text("UpdateValue");

This used to work before until I made a change to fix something that should have never been broken.. and now this is appending text & not replacing it.

Can somebody please confirm that it should replace the existing text, and not append the text to the existing text? Or am I going nuts??!!

Thanks

(Crazy) Dave

Answer 1

It was a PEBKAC error.

a careless copy & paste resulted in the following being pasted into a UserControl:

<a id="lnkShowClipboard" class="ClipboardLink" href="#">

note the absence of </a>

For whatever reason the browser tried to complete the unfinished HTML in its own way & whatever way that was, jQuery didn’t agree with it.

Thanks guys

Dave