jQuery - Selecting the value of a span via classname

Question

I want to get the value of a span by knowing only the class name. In the document there is only one span with that class. I tried like this:

$('span.foo').text();

But it doesn't return anything. How can I do that?

Answer 1

demo

works fine for me

<span class="foo"> 
bar 
</span> 
<script> 
alert($('span.foo').text()); 
</script>