Get the text contents of all matched elements. The result is a string that contains the combined text contents of all matched elements. This method works on both HTML and XML documents. Gets the concatenated text of all paragraphs <p><b>Test</b> Paragraph.</p><p>Paraparagraph</p> $("p").text(); Test Paragraph.Paraparagraph Set the text contents of all matched elements. Similar to html(), but escapes HTML (replace "<" and ">" with their HTML entities). The text value to set the contents of the element to. Sets the text of all paragraphs. <p>Test Paragraph.</p> $("p").text("<b>Some</b> new text."); <p>&lt;b&gt;Some&lt;/b&gt; new text.</p> Sets the text of all paragraphs. <p>Test Paragraph.</p> $("p").text("<b>Some</b> new text.", true); <p>Some new text.</p>