$("div#myDiv").css("content") returns undefined in IE8

Question

$("div#myDiv").css("content") returns undefined in IE8. Works perfect in other browsers and IE6 & 7.

Answer 1

Are you sure you shouldn't be doing:

$('div#myDiv').html() 

or

$('div#myDiv').text()

That's how I would go about getting the "content" of a DIV.

Note, that if you are going after the content inserted by CSS, note that in IE8 you need to have a DOCTYPE (reference) for the document.

Note: Internet Explorer 8 (and higher) supports the content property if a !DOCTYPE is specified.