Question

So I am using jquery.autocomplete.js,
demo can be found here http://www.ajaxdaddy.com/demo-jquery-autocomplete.html
I want to be able to return a span value in an alert message.
this is the php file that echos results:

$email="span id='emaild'".$rs['email'].'/span'; $str.= $email." ".$rs['phone']." ".$rs['address1']." ".$rs['address2']." "."\n"; echo $str;

email is inside a span tag. when I click on that result I want to be able to see an alert of that value, that is the email.
This is what I have so far, it displays a 0 zero on the alert box as a result

 .click(function(event) {           
            var keyw = jQuery("li").val();
            alert(keyw);
            $(target(event)).addClass(CLASSES.ACTIVE);
            select();
            // TODO provide option to avoid setting focus again after selection? useful for cleanup-on-focus
            input.focus();
            return false;

        })

Answer 1

You need the text method instead of val:

var keyw = jQuery("li").text();

The val method is used to return the value of the value property, and the only elements that have value properties are those which are used in forms, such as input or select.