This method returns you text content of an element.
In Javascript, You use textContent property to get text content.
Get text content
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Jquery text()</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main" style="border:2px solid black;width:400;height:200;">
<h1>What is the full form of HTML?</h1>
<p>The full form of the HTML is hyper text markup language.</p>
</div>
<button style="margin:30px;">Get text content</button>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("button").click(function(){
var textcontent = $("#main").text();
alert(textcontent);
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>If you want html content then you can use html() method in jquery.
Set text content
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Jquery text()</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div id="main" style="border:2px solid black;width:400px;height:200px;">
</div>
<button style="margin:30px;">Set text content</button>
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
$("button").click(function(){
$("#main").text("Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry's standard dummy text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and scrambled it to make a type specimen book. It has survived not only five centuries, but also the leap into electronic typesetting, remaining essentially unchanged.");
});
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
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