Question

I’m trying to search through the p tag content inside the .list and I’m probably just over complicating this but my alert isn’t working, maybe it’s because of other code I have on the page this isn’t functioning but I was wondering if someone can help me figure out where I’m going wrong.

JS

            $(document).ready(function() {
            var sresults = $('.mainsearch input').val();

            var sfinder = $('.list p').find(sresults).text(sresults);


            $('.mainsearch input').keyup(function () {
             $('.search-help').append(sfinder);

             alert(sfinder);

            });
            });

HTML

            <div class="mainsearch">
            <input/>
            <div class="search-help">Results:
            </div>
            </div>


            <div class="list">
            <span><p>test</p></span>
            <span><p>another result</p></span>
            <span><p>yet another result</p></span>
            </div>

Answer 1

something like this?

$(document).ready(function() {
     $('.mainsearch input').keyup(function () {
     var sresults = $('.mainsearch input').val();
     var sfinder = $('p:contains('+sresults+')').text();
     $('.search-help').text("Results:" + sfinder);
         alert(sfinder);
     });
});

http://jsfiddle.net/h7uYB/

Update:

try this:

http://jsfiddle.net/h7uYB/2/