You can use either:
$("selector").text("New text");
Or
$("selector").html("New text");
Both also work as getters if you don't provide an argument:
theText = $("selector").text();
theHTML = $("selector").html();
Is this what you were after?
Regards,
Michael Price
-----Original Message-----
From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:jquery...@googlegroups.com] On
Behalf Of George
Sent: 18 May 2009 12:09
To: jQuery (English)
Subject: [jQuery] Re: What's the best way to replace text in a node?
Sorry, folks, I'm not using remove(), I'm using empty() - like this:
JQUERY
<p id='dText'>text to be replaced</p>
$('#dText').empty().append('New text string')
On May 18, 12:02 pm, George <george.bea...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> I'm guessing this should be a simple one for the jQuery stalwarts
> here. I've recently moved over from Protoype and was used to using
> the update() function to replace text within a node - something like
> this:
>
> PROTOTYPE
> <p id='dText'>text to be replaced</p>
> $('dText').update('New text string')
>
> JQUERY
> <p id='dText'>text to be replaced</p>
> $('#dText').remove().append('New text string')
>
> Now it appears to me that in jQuery, there isn't an out of the box
> function to replace the contents of a node without also replacing the
> node too, hence the reason I am chaining remove() and append(). Is
> there a better way to achieve this?
>
> Many thanks
>
> George
