I'm using Clipboard.js and am trying to get the text in a <td> node using the following:

$('.clipboard').click(function(evt) {

    clipboard.copy(evt.target.val()).then(

      function(){console.log(success);},

      function(err){console.log(failure, err);}

    );

});

Obviously .val() is not a valid method on evt.target. What's the correct way of getting the nodes text value using evt here?