Using jQuery to Retrieve Text from an HTML Element

Question

So i have a set of links that all must call the same ajax function through jQuery. To simplify this, I have used

$('#nav').click(function() {...});

where each has the same <a id="nav"...>I want to retrieve only the text of the HTML element clicked on, but using the .text() function in ajax retrieves the text of each $('#nav') element. Any suggestions?

Tomm · Accepted Answer · 2011-07-22 00:23:20Z

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CSS id's are only to be used once. Change your #nav to a class and you're good:

<a class="nav">

and get the text like this

$('.nav').click(function() { alert($(this).text()); });

answered Jul 22, 2011 at 0:23

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