How do I get the content of string?

Question

If i have

<p>someword here</p>
<span>another thing here</span>new line

this is as a string
How do i get the content of span?

I want the result to be

another thing here
new line

update :

<script>
var string = "<span>this is span</span>new line";
var anchors = $('<div/>').append(string).find('span').text();
console.log(anchors);
</script>

output:-

this is span

and want to new line

You should post what you have already tried and ask for help fixing any errors. — Rune FS, Feb 26 '14 at 07:28

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 26 '14 at 07:32

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you can assign a id or class to span and using jquery

<span class="myclass" id="myid">another thing here</span>

jQuery('#myid').html();

or

jQuery('.myclass').html();

but the class method will give you all the elements having class "myclass"

answered Feb 26 '14 at 07:32

Mubbashar

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since OP is looking for the text content you should use `.text()` – Rune FS Feb 26 '14 at 07:32
and if this is string then you can do like jQuery('
').append(contentstring).find('span').text() – Mubbashar Feb 26 '14 at 07:36

How do I get the content of string?

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