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<html>
  <head>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="js/jquery-1.3.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        $(document).ready(function(){

            var str = $("p:first").text();
            $("p:last").html(str);
        });
    </script>
    <style>
      .selected { color:red; }
      .highlight { background:yellow; }
    </style>    
  </head>
  <body>
    <body>
      <p class="selected highlight">Hello first</p>
      <p class="">Hello</p>
    </body>
</html>








30.104.text
30.104.1.Assign text value to DIV
30.104.2.Change text to uppercase
30.104.3.Replace Span Text Value
30.104.4.Output HTML as text
30.104.5.Get text from tag
30.104.6.Set text for tag
30.104.7.text() returns a string that contains the combined text contents of all matched elements
30.104.8.text is similar to html(), but escapes HTML (replace "<" and ">" with their HTML entities).
30.104.9.Get HTML and Text from a p tag
30.104.10.Set text and html