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HTML Method

HTML Method

The Jquery .html() method gets the content of a HTML element or sets the content of an HTML element.

Getting

To return the content of a HTML element, use this syntax:

$('selector').html();

For example:

$('#example').html();

Setting

To set the content of a HTML element, use this syntax:

$('selector').html(content);

For example:

$('p').html('Hello World!');

That will set the content of all of the <p> elements to Hello World!

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