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pghtech

I was trying to figure out how to get the text off a page in a <TD> with a Class. That way I can do a conditional statement on the return value such as either hide or show another DIV.

I tried the following with no luck:


jQuery.noConflict();
	jQuery(document).ready(function(){
	 
	
	var giftopt = jQuery(\"#giftopt\");

	if (\"#giftopt == 'Someone Else'\") {
		//do something
	};
	if (\"#giftopt == 'Me'\") {
                //do something
	};
});

chriscoyier

You use the .text() function to get the text out of an element

http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/text

var testText = $(\"td#giftopt\").text();

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