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Asked: 2026-06-08T00:19:27+00:00

Is there a better way to write this so I don’t have to use

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Is there a better way to write this so I don’t have to use the [0] and so I can access the text by the JQuery Text instead of innerText ? I don’t want to use innerText for Cross Browser compatibility . 

$('#' + controlBestPractice)[0].innerText
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  1. Editorial Team

    Use first if your selector returns more than one element (we don’t really know what is inside controlBestPractice, e.g. it could be #div-id p):

    $('#' + controlBestPractice).first().text()

    As bhamlin pointed out in comments, it appears that you are using id selector, so there should be only one element, so this should work:

    $('#' + controlBestPractice).text()
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