Use jquery to set value of div tag

if your value is a pure text (like ‘test’) you could use the text() method as well. like this:

$('div.total-title').text('test');

anyway, about the problem you are sharing, I think you might be calling the JavaScript code before the HTML code for the DIV is being sent to the browser. make sure you are calling the jQuery line in a <script> tag after the <div>, or in a statement like this:

$(document).ready(
    function() {
        $('div.total-title').text('test');
    }
);

this way the script executes after the HTML of the div is parsed by the browser.