Try this code:
HTML:
<span id="text1">Medium Tail</span>
JS: you can use empty and append method to do that:
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#text1").empty().append("Medium Tail/Popular");
});
Plz check it out: http://jsfiddle.net/o1f77e1y/
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