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Using jQuery to Change the Text Color of a Paragraph

January 29, 2022 Leave a Comment

To change the text color of a paragraph using jQuery, we simply can use the css() method to change the styles of an element.

$("#p1").css("color", "green");

Let’s say we have the following HTML:

<div id="div">
  <p id="p1">We will change the color of this text.</p>
</div>

If we want to change the color of the paragraph to green, we will use the jQuery css() method in the following JavaScript code.

$("#p1").css("color", "green");

If you are using WordPress, don’t forget to change the $ to jQuery as below:

jQuery("#p1").css("color", "green");

The second argument can be any valid css color. So for example, we could use the hexadecimal value for green to change the background color to green.

$("#p1").css("color", "#00FF00");

Using jQuery to Change the Color of Text with a Click

To change the color of text using jQuery, we can combine the css() method with a click event.

Let’s say we have the following HTML and we want to change the color of the first paragraph to green.

<div>
  <p id="p1">This is some text</p>
  <p id="p2">This is some text</p>
  <div id="click-me">Change text color</div>
</div>

We can utilize both the jQuery click() and css() methods to change the color of the first line of text.

Here is the JavaScript code:

$("#click-me").click(function(){
    $("#p1").css("color", "green");
});

The final code and output for this example of how to change the text color using jQuery is below:

Code Output:

This is some text

This is some text

Change text color

Full Code:

<div>
  <p id="p1">This is some text</p>
  <p id="p2">This is some text</p>
  <div id="click-me">Change text color</div>
</div>

<script>

$("#click-me").click(function(){
    $("#p1").css("color", "green");
});

</script>

Hopefully this article has been useful for you to understand how to use jQuery to change the color of some text.

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