jQuery increment value of tag

Question

I have a number in a span tag. I need to get the value of the number in the span and then increment it inside jQuery. I know how to do this for a text input - can this be

Answer 1

Something like this:

var $span = $('#mySpanId');
$span.text(Number($span.text()) + 1);

http://jsfiddle.net/mattball/Cf834/