Question

Not sure this is possible but maybe you can help.

I have a list, where the content of the <li>‘s is generated by Javascript, through a function called showLink(); this function is on another server and it’s not controlled by me.

The showLink(); function generates a html link. I am interested in the generated anchor text.

QUESTION: Is there a way I can use Jquery to get the anchor text of that link into a Jquery variable?

Here is the code:

<ul class="my_list">
<? $zero = '0';
   for($rn = 1; $rn <= $traffic_rows_nr; $rn++){ ?>
       <li><script language="JavaScript">showLink(<? echo $rn; ?>)</script></li>
<? } ?>
</ul>

Thank you!

Answer 1

Something like

var anchorText = $("ul.my_list li a").text();

or…

var anchorText = [];
$("ul.my_list li a").each(function() {
    anchorText.push($(this).text());
})
// anchorText is now an array of the text in all the anchors in the list