jquery selector selector for class not working(bootpeg)

Question

I am using jquery bootpag to display pagination on a page

<div class="textgray showing"></div>

How should I tell jQuery to select this div? I tried the following without but neither of these attempts work

$(".textgray .showing").html("some text");

$(".textgray showing").html("some text");

P.S I am a beginner in frontend so bear with me

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 07 '17 at 10:05

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The space means the second part is inside the first one (it's called the descendant combinator). Remove it:

$(".textgray.showing").html("some text");

answered Feb 07 '17 at 10:05

Denys Séguret

this should not be closed as typo? – mplungjan Feb 07 '17 at 10:12
Typo ? No, really not. It's probably a duplicate though. Find it and I'll close the question. – Denys Séguret Feb 07 '17 at 10:13
When I said typo I mean the "typo off topic" "cannot be reproduced once you have fixed the space" kind of close – mplungjan Feb 07 '17 at 10:14
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Duplicate: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1041344/how-can-i-select-an-element-with-multiple-classes – mplungjan Feb 07 '17 at 10:14

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Feb 07 '17 at 10:06

0

You don't need to put that extra space in between selector. space in selector looks for descendant elements:

$(".textgray.showing").html("some text");

answered Feb 07 '17 at 10:06

Milind Anantwar

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