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HTML
<span id="test1">some text</span>
<span id="test2">some text</span>
JavaScript
alert($('test1').text());
$('test2').text('different text');
<span id="test1">some text</span>
<span id="test2">some text</span>
alert($('test1').text());
$('test2').text('different text');