.text()

Retrieves the text from all items in the collection, or sets the text content on each item in the collection.

Usage

$(selector).text();
$(selector).text(text);

text

A string of text, or a function that returns a string.

Returns

When getting text: A string containing the combined text of all elements in the collection.

When setting text: The original Dabby collection.

Differences to jQuery

None.

Examples

This will retrieve the text content of the <p> element:

const myText = $("p").text();
console.log(myText);

This will set the text content of the <h2> element to “New Title”.

$("h2").text("New Title");

Set the text using a function, this will set the text of each <li> element to include its index and its original text.

$("li").text((i, value) => "Item " + (i + 1) + ": " + value);