What is the differnce between these two types using jquery

Question

hi,

 $('tr td:first-child').click(function() {
        var foobar = $(this).text();
        $("#showgrid").load('/Product/List/Item?id=' + foobar);
    });

when I am seding foobar value like this in the Actionresult method I am getting string id value perfectly but I am not able to display the grid?

but intresting thing is when I am seding like this

 $("#showgrid").load('/Product/List/Item?id=' + "12345");

then I am able to display the grid.. foobar result is same 12345..

what is the differnt between these two types?

can any body help me out..

thanks

Answer 1

From the docs: text() returns the combined text contents of each element in the set of matched elements, including their descendants. So, if you have any other nodes that contain text in the first-child of the td, it'll include that text as well. Can you post some markup so we can see what you are targeting?

Answer 2

Try this:

var foobar = $.trim($(this).text());

You may have some extra spaces in there.