How to get span tag inside a div in jQuery and assign a text?

Question

I use the following ,

<div id='message' style="display: none;">   <span></span>  <a href="#" class="close-notify">X</a> </div> 

Now i want to find the span inside the div and assign a text to it...

function Errormessage(txt) {     $("#message").fadeIn("slow");     // find the span inside the div and assign a text     $("#message a.close-notify").click(function() {         $("#message").fadeOut("slow");     }); } 

Answer 1

Try this:

$("#message span").text("hello world!"); 

See it in your code!

function Errormessage(txt) {     var m = $("#message");      // set text before displaying message     m.children("span").text(txt);      // bind close listener     m.children("a.close-notify").click(function(){       m.fadeOut("slow");     });      // display message     m.fadeIn("slow"); }