Thanks for the response. I pasted the wrong code, they were consistent in the original. mea culpa! However, this is solved. I had created a conflict with classes somewhere else in the html and that was the source of the problem.
On Nov 10, 12:12 pm, D A <dali...@gmail.com> wrote: > > jquery > > var originalTitle=$("a.basic").attr("title"); > > $("p.area1").text(originalTitle); > > > html > > <p>This is where the original title should go</p> > > <div class="area1"></div> > > Your selector is looking for a paragraph with a class of 'area1'. > However, there is no paragraph with that class in your markup. > > -DA