change html span inner text

Question

I want to change a value of a span I am tried to do it like that:

$('#tList span.k-input').textContent = "(" + list.length + ") " + $('#tList span.k-input').html();

or

 $('#tList span.k-input').html() = "(" + list.length + ") " + $('#tList span.k-input').html();

if I hove over $('#tList span.k-input').html() it shows me the right value but nothing happens in the html.

Answer 1

This should work

var html = "(" + list.length + ") " + $('#tList span.k-input').html();
$('#tList span.k-input').html(html)

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Answer 2

.html() is used to get contents of an element. To set inner content you can use the same function and pass the value as a parameter.

You can visit below url for reference http://api.jquery.com/html/#html2