You need to read the jquery selector docs at http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/attributeHas#attribute
Below is the code that will get your data. $("span[printData]").text(); On May 4, 12:33 pm, Andy H <adharb...@gmail.com> wrote: > For some reason this post disappeared. Can anyone answer this? > > Thanks! > > On May 1, 10:01 am, Andy <adharb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > This is an odd questions. I have a huge form with a lot of data. > > There is a table that data in it I need to display on a print screen > > (of course this data isn't being displayed in the regular table). So, > > I put the display text in a span tag. > > > So, this is how each item will look: > > > <span printData="Item 1 detail to display">Item 1</span> > > <span printData="item 2 detail to display">Item 2</span> > > > I need a way to grab all spans on the page that have the attributte of > > "printData" and grab that text inside that attribute and print it out. > > > Any thoughts?