How to get an the text value of an element in jQuery?

Question

I have an HTML table generated dynamically with field names generated for each row dynamically as well.

Here is the structure I have within the table. I have a <td> tag and within it I have a <span> tag. I want to get the value for each tag. I have tried this this way:

$("#txtname").attr('value',$("#table1").find('td > #selname_'+i).text());

In the above code I am setting the $("#txtname") (textbox value) with the value from the <span> tag (selname). Here i is an incrementing value.

I want to get the text, but do not get the <span> value, and I am not able to assign to it.

Answer 1

No need to make your selectors so complicated:

$("#txtname").val($("#selname_"+i).text());