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.

To put text, use .text('text')

If you want to use .html(SomeValue), SomeValue should have html tags that can be inside a div it must work too.

Just check your script location, as farzad said.

Reference: .html and text

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