Question

<td>
   Some stuff here
   <span style="display: none;">sekret stuff here</span>
</td>

How would I go about getting the content of the <span> tag in that td, so that my output would be “sekret stuff here”, using jQuery?

I’ve tried a couple of different things, but couldn’t get anything to work. =/.

Answer 1

This will alert the contents of the span when hovering over the td, only if the td has an span element inside:

$('td').mouseover(function() {
    if($(this).find('span').size() > 0) {
        // This will alert 'sekret stuff here'
        alert($(this).find('span').html());
    }
});