Get Only Text values in

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I have following html. Can someone help me in getting just the text value in <li> I only want the text value from all <span> within <li> within that <ul>

Thanks for help.

have you debuged for `$.trim(document.getElementById("JobMemo " + jobId + "
@Satpal there is a space in the ID... as a selector you need to escape it — Arun P Johny, Apr 08 '14 at 12:45

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 08 '14 at 12:47

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use .text():

var id="JobMemo " + jobId + " <li>";
$.trim($("#"+id).text());

answered Apr 08 '14 at 12:47

Milind Anantwar

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what about the space and `
`?

Arun P Johny

Apr 08 '14 at 12:47

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 08 '14 at 12:48

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You can use .text() like

var jobMemo = $.trim($("#JobMemo\\ " + jobId).text());

Demo: Fiddle

Note: It is not a good idea to have space in the id....

answered Apr 08 '14 at 12:48

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@RS26 can you share a sample of generated html? looks like there is a space between `JobMemo` and the id – Arun P Johny Apr 08 '14 at 12:54
@RS26:the one which is there in ID of `
– Milind Anantwar Apr 08 '14 at 12:55
Ok sir. But that is not giving me problem i guess. Still unable to get just the text:( – Richa Apr 08 '14 at 12:56

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:49

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You can try

$("[id='JobMemo " + jobId  + "']").text();

You should not use spaces, the reason is that, space character is not a valid for ID attribute.

ID and NAME tokens must begin with a letter ([A-Za-z]) and may be followed by any number of letters, digits ([0-9]), hyphens ("-"), underscores ("_"), colons (":"), and periods (".").

The working draft for HTML 5 is even more permissive, saying only that an id must contain at least one character and may not contain any space characters.

You should also read What are valid values for the id attribute in HTML?

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answered Apr 08 '14 at 12:48

Satpal

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@RS26, Glad I could help – Satpal Apr 08 '14 at 13:28
But every time i hit enter and write it comes on same line and not new line after refresh – Richa Apr 08 '14 at 13:37

queval_j · Answer 4 · 2014-04-08T13:19:06.107

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In order to get the whole texts in an array you can do that

var jobId = '1';
var jobMemo = $("[id='JobMemo " + jobId  + "']")
.map(function() {
    return $(this).text();
}).get();

You can see : http://jsfiddle.net/8QTru/1/

jobMemo is an array with only the text of each li. But, like Satpal sayd, your ID is not valid. I suggest you to replace your space (" ") by a underscore ("_") in order to get something like that : id="JobMemo_1" instead of id="JobMemo 1".

edited Apr 08 '14 at 13:19

answered Apr 08 '14 at 13:05

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Trying it out,please give sometime – Richa Apr 08 '14 at 13:11

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