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How to get the value of a custom tag with jQuery

I have a custom tag with format 

<ie:menuitems id="ieMenu">Hello World</ie:menuitems>

Now my task is to change the 'Hello World' text, but I am unable to retrieve the value with jQuery/JavaScript, i can get the element for sure because $('#ieMenu").size() gives me 1 as output, but to get the value i tried .text(), .contents(), .val(), .html() but none worked, please help

thanks in advance

EDIT--------------------------------------------------

I think I should mention something here, the above code sample is copied from the page source, i am not sure if this helps you in some way or not, what i wanted to say this is the converted html, and i am running my code in a button click not in page load

Solution

  • Amazing I don't know is it correct or not but I checked and found "Hello World" by using 

    $("#ieMenu")[0].nextSibling.nodeValue

    and you can assign value as

    $("#ieMenu")[0].nextSibling.nodeValue = "Test"