HTML Element Text not set correctly

[IjumpOverU]

While I am quite sure this stupidly simple (and I think I dealt with it before) my brain is currentlt fried so I am asking for assistance.

On my html/js page I have a simple <span> tag which during actions on the page (no reload or refresh) gets a text value...

From - <span id="eleText" style="text-decoration:underline; cursorointer"></span>

To - <span id="eleText" style="text-decoration:underline; cursorointer">Status:Complete</span>

Yet when I try to retrieve this "Status:Complete" value in script I get an empty string. I know that the value is there I can see it on the page and when debugging the html structure. Javascript (and JQuery) do not see it.

var curTags = $('#eleText').text();

 

[vacunita]

We'd need to see more code to do anything other than guess.

How are you setting the value?
Where are you running the $('#eleText').text(); function?
Where are you checking the curTags variable to see that its empty?
Are you sure the span's id is correct. JS is case sensitive. so eleText would be different to eletext or even EleText.
Do you have more than one element with that ID?

In other words we'd need to see some context for the code, because as it stands it should work.


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