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mahle
mahle

Reputation: 231

Getting value of p tag with jquery

Im using jquery to try to take the value text in a p tag.

I set up an alert for testing to give me the value and it says "current stack is [object Object]"

My html for this is

<div id="player9">
    <div class="player_stats">
      <p class="player_name"></p>
      <p class="player_action"></p>
      <p class="player_money"></p>
   </div>
</div>

My alert code is:

alert("current stack is " + $("#player9").children(".player_stats").children("p.player_money"));

if I add .val() it comes back as undefined. These values were set upon page load by:

$(whichseat[seat]).children(".hand").children("p.bet").text(bet);

"whichseat[seat] and bet are based into the function. They are setting correctly.

If I use firebug and checkout that specific p tag it says:

<p class="player_money">60000</p>

How do I correctly grab that value?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Upvotes: 4

Views: 30162

Answers (3)

Abdel Raoof Olakara
Abdel Raoof Olakara

Reputation: 19353

You can use the text() method. The val() method is used for getting input field's values. So, you will have:

alert("current stack is " + $("#player9").children(".player_stats").children("p.player_money").text());

Upvotes: 2

BoltClock
BoltClock

Reputation: 724502

Not sure what else I'm missing, but since you're setting the inner text with .text(), you get it using the same method.

If all else fails you may have to specify to get the inner text of exactly one element:

$("#player9 > .player_stats > p.player_money:first").text()

Upvotes: 1

Scoobler
Scoobler

Reputation: 9719

You could use .html() or .text()

alert("current stack is " + $("#player9").children(".player_stats").children("p.player_money").html());

Or:

alert("current stack is " + $("#player9").children(".player_stats").children("p.player_money").text());

Obviously the text method will grab just the text, where as the html will get the markup as well. Demo Here

Upvotes: 8

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