Quick, but not dirty MorningZ! Good code :-) Annotation: $(document).ready(function() { // DOM is ready:
// when we click on a checkbox $(":checkbox").click(function() { // find the next element and take the text of it. alert($(this).next().text()); }); }); The "next element" in this case is the text node. <label><input type="checkbox " />hello</label> In this case 'hello'. You could just as easily assign the value to a variable instead of alert()ing it: var my_var = $(this).next().text(); On Sep 25, 3:47 pm, MorningZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's some quick and dirty (and working) code > > http://paste.pocoo.org/show/86213/