Change Text Inside an Element with jQuery

Tell us what’s happening:
Hi guys i need help with this. im pretty stuck.

Your code so far

<script>
  $(document).ready(function() {
    $("#target1").css("color", "red");
    $(button id="target4").html("<em>target4</em>");
  });
</script>

<!-- Only change code above this line. -->

<div class="container-fluid">
  <h3 class="text-primary text-center">jQuery Playground</h3>
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-xs-6">
      <h4>#left-well</h4>
      <div class="well" id="left-well">
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target1">#target1</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target2">#target2</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target3">#target3</button>
      </div>
    </div>
    <div class="col-xs-6">
      <h4>#right-well</h4>
      <div class="well" id="right-well">
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target4">#target4</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target5">#target5</button>
        <button class="btn btn-default target" id="target6">#target6</button>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Your browser information:

Your Browser User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/64.0.3282.186 Safari/537.36.

Link to the challenge:
https://www.freecodecamp.org/challenges/change-text-inside-an-element-using-jquery

1 Like

Hi,

You can use $("youElement").html() but some people told me that it is best practice to use $("yourElement").text()

and for your case, don’t use "button id="! you can select your element as same as in css this way $("#target4").html(<em>target4</em>);

Good luck :slight_smile: