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<html>
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script>
<script> 
        $("div.block").each(index){
            this.text('Fill this writing of divs with the classname "block"')} 
</script>

<body>
        <div>Not here</div> 
        <div class='block'>replace me -- not working, why?</div> 
        <div>Not here</div> 
        <div class='block'>replace me -- not working, why?</div>
</body>

</html>
hhh
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You don't need to use each - you can just call the text method on your entire selection:

$("div.block").text('Fill this writing of divs with the classname "block"');

Incidentally, your problem above was that you were using each incorrectly 

$("div.block").each(function(index, el){
    $(el).text('Fill this writing of divs with the classname "block"');
});
Adam Rackis
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    Those dom elements are not ready when the script runs. You need to wrap that script in a document.ready handler, OR move the script to the very end of you body. – Adam Rackis Nov 22 '12 at 23:41
  • ...suppose I would like to fill the div with many of this kind of things `
    I am happy
    ` so array `values={{'happy.png','I am happy'}, {'happy2.png', 'I am also happy'}, {'hello.png', 'It is hello'}}`. How would you iterate it?     – hhh Nov 22 '12 at 23:47
  • @hhh - I'm afraid I don't follow. I'd recommend you write up a new question and fully explain what you're trying to do. – Adam Rackis Nov 22 '12 at 23:49
  • Yes Sir, [here](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13521639/images-and-text-from-array-into-divs-with-jquery). – hhh Nov 23 '12 at 00:13