What are the methods in jQuery to manipulate attributes?


jQuery comes with a lot of methods to manipulate attributes. These are DOM related methods. The attributes include,

  • text() – This method sets or returns the text content of elements selected.
  • html() – This method sets or returns the content of elements selected.
  • val() – This method sets or returns the value of form fields.

You can try to run the following code to learn how to manipulate attributes with text() and html() methods −

Example

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.2.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
   $("#button1").click(function(){
     alert("Using text- " + $("#demo").text());
   });
   $("#button2").click(function(){
     alert("Using html()- " + $("#demo").html());
   });
});
</script>
</head>
<body>

<p id="demo">This is <b>demo</b> text.</p>

<button id="button1">Text</button>
<button id="button2">HTML</button>

</body>
</html>

Updated on: 13-Jun-2020

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