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1. retrieving text using this.text() and jquery    stackoverflow.com

I'm trying to get the text within the clicked linked by using this

    $(".ajax-append").click(function(event) { 
     $.get("includes/fight.php?name=test", function(html) { 

     ...

2. JSONP how to retrieve text    stackoverflow.com

I do understand what JSON/JSONP does, but I'm not a programmer and do not know how to extract the bare basics for simple usage. I've read a lot on JSONP and ...

3. retrieve the text from HTMLbox    stackoverflow.com

Does anyone know how to retrieve the text from HTMLbox rich text editior?

4. jQuery: using .text() to retrieve only text not nested in child tags    stackoverflow.com

If I have html like this:

<li id="listItem">
    This is some text
    <span id="firstSpan">First span text</span>
    <span id="secondSpan">Second span text</span>
</li>

5. Retrieving the text of a specified link tag not working    stackoverflow.com

so I have a few links that have a class of 'button', and I am trying to get their text values with the jQuery .text() function, but it is returning nothing ...

6. Retrieve plain text with jquery ajax and convert to JSON    stackoverflow.com

Update: the following works fine in IE8, but data comes back null in firefox:

$.getJSON('myUrl/solr/select/?q=citystate%3ASea*&version=2.2&start=0&rows=3&indent=on&wt=json&fl=citystate', function(data) {
  alert(data.response.docs[0].citystate);
});

7. Retrieving data from a text file on a different server using jQuery and JSONP    stackoverflow.com

Hi there i am trying to do something very simple, but as i am pretty new to JSONP i am struggling with it. All i want to do is retrieve some ...

8. Retrieve text file line-by-line using Jquery $.get()    stackoverflow.com

Is it possible to retrieve a txt files content line by line? Right now I'm using this code:

var file = "http://plapla.com/pla.txt";
function getFile(){
    ...

9. Using jQuery to Retrieve Text from an HTML Element    stackoverflow.com

So i have a set of links that all must call the same ajax function through jQuery. To simplify this, I have used

$('#nav').click(function() {...});

10. Cross domain ajax syncronous calls to retrieve plain text    stackoverflow.com

I'm looking for a cross-browser solution to be able to make cross-domain syncronous calls. What I want to do is to call some PHP services that return plain text (no JSON ...

11. jQuery retrieve the selected text    stackoverflow.com

i apply this method to a <textarea></textarea> element but i would like to return the html/text selected by the user.

$('.wysiwyg textarea').live('select',function(text){
    console.log(text);
});

12. Retrieve user selected text    forum.jquery.com

13. Retrieving text inside a tag    forum.jquery.com

Hi,Id really appreciate if you could explain how Id be able to retrieve the text "Text I want to retrieve".The structure is exactly as presented.This is what I managed to come up with so far: jQuery(".colhead").parent().parent().children()[1].cells[1].childNodes[1] This brings me the tag where the text is, but none of the functions or attributes seems to contain the text.

14. [jQuery] Text manipulation : retrieve tag    forum.jquery.com

15. [jQuery] getJSON - how to retrieve plain text?    forum.jquery.com I have a getJSON call that works fine in FF, but bugs in IE.I get no data. :(So i want to see what the plaintext is that's returned in the success callback..Using the new 1.3 jQuery, btw..code: var rc = $('select#regions_countries')[0]; var rr = $('select#regions_regions')[0]; var url = 'http://www.myhost.com/members/ajax_fetch_regions_for_countries.php'; var countries = []; for (var i=0; i