jQuery get value within child div

Answer 1

you can simply:

var text_val = $('#second_child').text();

as pointed by previous answers. but, since you "need to grab the text value of a child div", i assume that the child div id probably not always available. you can try this instead:

var text_val = $('#first').children().eq(1).text();

where 1 is the index of the child div (since it count starts from zero)