Question

I’m trying to get text inside .fromTo but the script doesn’t work.

Do I think correctly if the first part goes to the <a> element. And then it will search for the child and then get the text?

jQuery

to_user = $("a#"+msg_id).find("div.fromTo").text()

html

<a href="" id="27" class="msgLink">
    <div style="background:url(/media/user_avatar/comment_thumbnails/8.png);" class="msgImg"></div>
    <div class="fromTo">spelia</div>
    <div class="messageBody">wdwdwdw</div>
    <div class="message_date">8 hours ago</div>
    <div class="clearIt"></div>
</a>

Answer 1

The #id syntax works if you access directly through id. If you want to access tag name first then give id (or any other attribute) then following way will work

to_user = $("a[id='"+msg_id+"']").find("div.fromTo").text();

Similarly you can access an element with any attribute

$("a[attribute_name='"+desired_value+"']")

You can details here http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/attribute-selectors/