Grabbing span value

Grabbing span value

I have the following code, it's a custom drop down menu... I want to check that the value is not empty, how do I grab the value between the <span> tags?

I tried this but it no worky...

var storeType = $('store_type_list dt a span').html();




  1. <dl id="store_type_list" class="dropdown_store_type">
          <dt>
                <a>
                      <?php
                            if (isset($_SESSION['tmpStoreType'])) {
                                 echo '<span>' . $_SESSION['tmpStoreType'] . '</span>';
                            }
                            else {
                                  echo '<span></span>';
                            }     
                      ?>
                </a>
          </dt>
          <dd>
                <ul>
                      <li><a>501c Non-Profit<span class="value">non profit</span></a></li>
                      <li><a>Private Club<span class="value">private club</span></a></li>
                      <li><a>School Sports<span class="value">school sports</span></a></li>
                </ul>
          </dd>
    </dl>





























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