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copied!<p>Try this:</p> <pre><code>jQuery(function () { $('a').click(function (e) { e.preventDefault(); var name = $(this).text(); $("#selector").text(name); $("#textbox").val(name); }); }); </code></pre> <p><code>e.preventDefault()</code> will prevent the link from doing whatever it is doing by default (which sounds like it could be refreshing the page...).</p> <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/Town/Jxgwa/" rel="nofollow"><strong>Here's a demo</strong></a>.</p> <p>I've also amended your selectors - <code>p#selector</code> is inefficient, you should simply use <code>#selector</code> when selecting by ID, as documented in the <a href="http://api.jquery.com/id-selector/" rel="nofollow">jQuery API</a>.</p> <blockquote> <p>For id selectors, jQuery uses the JavaScript function document.getElementById(), which is extremely efficient. When another selector is attached to the id selector, such as h2#pageTitle, jQuery performs an additional check before identifying the element as a match.</p> </blockquote> <p><strong>EDIT:</strong> As it's become apparent that the click handler isn't what you need here, try this solution:</p> <p>Parse the URL to get the current page using a <a href="http://plugins.jquery.com/project/url_parser" rel="nofollow">jQuery URL Parser</a>, and then find the link that corresponds to the URL and get the text:</p> <pre><code>var url = "one.htm"; var linktext = $("a[href='" + url + "']").text(); $('#output').text(linktext); </code></pre> <p><a href="http://jsfiddle.net/Town/jhbYL/" rel="nofollow"><strong>Working demo of that bit</strong></a> (just do the URL parsing instead of setting the URL manually).</p>

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