Assign value to span - jquery

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In this post we will see set a value to span tag using JQuer. To change value of span we can access span tag directly like $('span') and then using its .html() method we can assign some text to it.

assign value to span jquery

Example to assign text to span [jQuery] 

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head id="Head1" runat="server">
     <script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
    <title>Assign value to span in jQuery</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
      $(document).ready(function () {
        $("#submitbtn").click(function () {
          var inputValue = $("#inputText").val();
          $('span').html(inputValue);
        });
      });
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <form id="form1" runat="server">
    <div>
       <label>Type some text here to assign to span</label>
        <input type="text" id="inputText"/>
        <input type="button" id="submitbtn" value="Submit" /><br/>
        <span style="width:500px;height:120px; background-color:thistle">&nbsp;</span>
    </div>
    </form>
</body>
</html>

Summary:So to replace span tag text we get the object of span tag like $('span') and using .html() we can change value of span.