Question

There are several elements that are selected by $(".foo"). $(".foo").text() returns the text of each element concatenated together. I just want the text of one element. What is the best way to do this?

$(".foo")[0].text() fails.

Answer 1

You want to use .eq(0), like this:

$(".foo").eq(0).text()

When you do $(".foo")[0] or $(".foo").get(0) you’re getting the DOM Element, not the jQuery object, .eq() will get the jQuery object, which has the .text() method.