On click radio button append value to div and remove from div when another radio button is clicked

Question

Basically, I'm trying to append a radio button value to a div on click. This works as it should, but I can't seem to clear the div when clicking another radio button.

There should only ever be 1 piece of appended data within the div.

I tried to clear the div with innerHTML before appending the value but doesn't seem to work

 $('input[type="radio"]').one('click', function () { var getVal = $(this).val(); if ($('.selections').text().length < 0) { console.log('less than'); } else if ($('.selections').text().length > 0){ console.log('more than'); $('.selections').innerHTML = ""; $('.selections').append(getVal); } console.log(getVal); });

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <form> <label> <span class="radio-c"> <input type="radio" name="q1" value="Between £381K and £450K" id="between381"> Between £381K and £450K </span> </label> <label> <span class="radio-c"> <input type="radio" name="q1" value="Over £450K" id="over450"> Over £450K </span> </label> </form> <div class="selections"> </div>

Answer 1

innerHTML is used when using vanilla JS. You should use text() on jQuery referenced object. You also do not need to append here.

I also believe you have mistakenly used .one() , which should be .on() .

 $('input[type="radio"]').on('click', function () { var getVal = $(this).val(); if ($('.selections').text().length < 0) { //console.log('less than'); } else if ($('.selections').text().length > 0){ //console.log('more than'); $('.selections').text(getVal); } //console.log(getVal); });

 <script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <form> <label> <span class="radio-c"> <input type="radio" name="q1" value="Between £381K and £450K" id="between381"> Between £381K and £450K </span> </label> <label> <span class="radio-c"> <input type="radio" name="q1" value="Over £450K" id="over450"> Over £450K </span> </label> </form> <div class="selections"> </div>