Extracting share count from AddThis button with jQuery not working

Is there a another way to do thi开发者_运维知识库s. If I remove display:none (which i don't want to do) it works but not all the time.

I'm trying to get the share count from the addthis widget, that will be in a hidden area on my site and output that count in another element.

http://jsfiddle.net/agileapricot/TpV28/

Replace

$("#addthis_counter").text();

by

$("#addthis_counter").html();

Does that help ?

Get the contents of the counter element by with the

html() 

function and

split(" ")[1]; 

the string to get what you want.