jQuery addClass example

Change class name on click in jQuery

by 20yco

HTML

<div class="article-table-descriptions" style="width: 100%;">
    <span id="tblfn4">*footer text.</span>
    <span id="tblfn5">†footer text.</span>
</div>

JavaScript

$(document).ready(function () {

	var span = $('span');
	var html = span.html();

	span.html("<span style='color: lime;'>"+ html.charAt(0)  +"</span>" + html.substring(1,html.length));
});