jQuery won't return expected .text value

Question

I am new to jQuery and I have an html file with this div element.

<div id="test div">Test Text</div>

and this div element.

<div id="dump contents"></div>

In my javascript file, I have this:

var testvariable = $("#test div").text();
$("#dump contents").html(testvariable);

But no matter what I do, nothing happens :(

Any advice? Thanks in advance!

IDs with spaces are invalid. And spaces inside a selector constitute the descendant selector: api.jquery.com/descendant-selector. — Felix Kling
– Felix Kling, Commented Jan 2, 2013 at 22:35

Ram · Accepted Answer · 2013-01-02 22:36:44Z

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the id attribute should be without spaces

<div id="test-div">Test Text</div>

and

<div id="dump-contents"></div>

JavaScript:

var testvariable = $("#test-div").text();
$("#dump-contents").html(testvariable);

from w3.org

The id attribute specifies its element's unique identifier (ID). The value must be unique amongst all the IDs in the element's home subtree and must contain at least one character. The value must not contain any space characters.

edited Jan 2, 2013 at 22:36

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