Question

Is is possible to update the text ‘changethis’ in below div using jquery ? I don’t think the .html method will suffice here since I just want to update part of the html, not all of it.

<div id="test">
<a title="http://stackoverflow.com" href="http://stackoverflow.com">changethis</a>
</div>

Answer 1

This

$("#test a").html("changed it");

will produce:

<div id="test">
<a title="http://stackoverflow.com" href="http://stackoverflow.com">changed it</a>
</div>