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title: "Get value of child div using jquery"  
description: "Get value of child div using jquery"  
author: "Sunil Singh"  
published: 2017-07-18  
updated: 2017-07-19  
canonical: https://www.mindstick.com/forum/34323/get-value-of-child-div-using-jquery  
category: "jquery"  
tags: ["jquery"]  
reading_time: 1 minute  

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# Get value of child div using jquery

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## Replies

### Reply by Sushant Mishra

//To get the textual contents of a container, you need to use text() (or html(),

```
   
var text_val = $('#second').text();    
or     var text_val = $('#container').children('#second').text();
```

hope this will helps you..


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