how to pick value in jquery
<p>i have build a small function whose work to get value in alert box but i want to pick only 5 character from starting. here is my function</p>

<pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt;
&lt;html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"&gt;
&lt;head&gt;
&lt;meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /&gt;
&lt;title&gt;Untitled Document&lt;/title&gt;
&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="jquery-1.7.2.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;

$(function (){

    $(".hhh").click(function(){

        $(this).html()

    })
})

&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;/head&gt;    
&lt;body&gt;
    &lt;div class="hhh"&gt;dd:ff:aa&lt;/div&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</code></pre>
