JQuery :: Use An Element In A Function With .text( )?

i have in my code a box called "box1". When the user clicks inside the "box1", a function called "showWidth()" returns the element and the wifth of the element. The function has 2 paramaters:

1) ele (element)

2) w (width)

in this line, how am i supposed to use the "ele" with text.() ?? ele.text("The width for the " + ele + " is " + w + "px."); /* PROBLEM HERE!!!! */

In order for this to work i do: $("#box1").text("The width for the " + ele + " is " + w + "px."); but if i have many different boxes with different ids, i can't create so many functions and have:

$("#box2").text(
$("#box3").text(
$("#box4").text(
$("#box5").text(

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