I’ve got a list of spans, containing numbers. I know how to extract numbers

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Asked: June 1, 20262026-06-01T13:30:28+00:00 2026-06-01T13:30:28+00:00

I’ve got a list of spans, containing numbers. I know how to extract numbers from span, that’s easy, but one of my span is ½ character entity.

if ($(".XT_Active").html().text() === "&frac12;") {
   //Do stuff
}

if ($(".XT_Active").text() === "½") {
   //Do stuff
}

I need it to evaluate to true. Neither of these work.

Any tips?

SOLUTION

I moved this to a different, more appropriate function. The above evaluated before the class XT_Active could be given.

It’s all good now. Thanks again everyone!

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-06-01T13:30:30+00:00

Editorial Team

It seems to work for me. Perhaps you have whitespace in your span.

If that’s not the issue you could try encoding the html entities using this technique

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