Jquery Adding text to a span

Question

<span class="field-validation-valid" data-valmsg-for="Classifications" data-valmsg-replace="true">
</span>

How can I add text to this span?

What I tried till now is the following:

var msg = $('#[data-valmsg-for="Classifications"]').val();
alert(msg);

Could some one throw idea on this.

Sridhar R · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-21 06:32:13Z

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Try this

$('span[data-valmsg-for="Classifications"]').text('Your Text'); //It wil add text to element

$('span[data-valmsg-for="Classifications"]').text();//It will get your element text

In your file get like this

var msg = $('span[data-valmsg-for="Classifications"]').text()
alert(msg);

DEMO

edited Dec 21, 2013 at 6:32

answered Dec 21, 2013 at 6:26

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Kurkula Over a year ago

I got the below error while i tried with above code. Unhandled exception at line 1715, column 2 in ajax.aspnetcdn.com/ajax/jQuery/jquery-2.0.3.js 0x800a139e - JavaScript runtime error: Syntax error, unrecognized expression: #[data-valmsg-for="Classifications"]

Mr. Alien · Accepted Answer · 2013-12-21 06:35:00Z

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You need to use .text()

$("[data-valmsg-for='Classifications']").text("Some Text");

Demo

Note: Above selector will add text to ANY element having a custom attribute of data-valmsg-for with a value of Classifications, so if you want to be that specific, than use span[data-valmsg-for='Classifications']

edited Dec 21, 2013 at 6:35

answered Dec 21, 2013 at 6:26

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