I would like to append anchor text between a tags using jquery

Question

I would like to append an anchor text in an a tag using jquery. Normally I can make an a tag look like this

<a href="#" >Hey</a> 

and Hey is the anchor text. But what I want to do is just have

<a href="#"></a>

and then use a javascript file running in the background append Hey as an anchor text to that link. How can I get that done?

EDIT This is what I tried to do but it didn't work.

$('hey').appendTo('.chat');

Where chat was the class name of the a tag.

$('<p>Hey</p>').appendTo('.chat');

That didn't work as well.

But thanks anyway guys. This code works

$('.chat').html('Hey');

Answer 1

Seeing that you tagged jQuery in the question:

$('a').html('Hey');