JQuery select text from anchor

Question

JQuery select text from anchor

i've building a nodejs app and using jquery in it. I try to get the text from a anchor from an nested list:

<ul class="someClass">
  <li>
    <a href="/blabla">Anchor Content</a>
  </li>
</ul>

My JQuery Code to get the content is:

$('#someClass').find('a').text();

Unfortunately it isn't working. Any ideas?

javascript
jquery
node.js

Answer 1

Use this

$('.someClass').find('a').text();

Use the class selector. Until now, you're just using the ID selector. In jQuery . is the class selector. In HTML you're using the class not the ID. So that code won't work.

For more on jQuery selectors: http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/