In your code I see a couple of errors:
The HTML code is wrong, the syntax for a HTML list should be:
<ul>
<li>Primer elemento</li>
<li>Segundo elemento</li>
<li>Tercer elemento</li>
</ul>
An element such as a span does not contain a value (that's for inputs text ), it contains innerHTML , which in this case would be the text of each item in the list.
By editing the javascript code a bit, you can fix it:
$('#usuarios > ul').children('span').each(function () {
// Cambiamos el selector de jQuery para que busque directamente los ul de #usuarios
// y procese cada span
console.log(this.innerHTML); // Utilizamos innerHTML para acceder al texto del span
});
#usuarios ul{
display:inline-block;
width:100px;
text-align:center;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="usuarios">
<ul><span>ayer</span> </ul>
<ul><span>amor</span></ul>
<ul><span>gab</span> </ul>
<ul><span>rio</span> </ul>
<ul><span>bestia</span> </ul>
<ul><span>gorro</span> </ul>
<ul><span>abrigo</span> </ul>
<ul><span>jaula</span> </ul>
<ul><span>zorra</span> </ul>
<ul><span>tele</span> </ul>
</div>
PD:
My recommendation is that you correct the HTML code, so that jQuery has to travel less DOM when it comes to processing all the elements, apart from that a bad HTML code can cause defects in different browsers:
$('#usuarios').children('li').each(function () {
console.log(this.innerHTML); // innerHTML accede al texto del elemento y NO al elemento
});
#usuarios li{
display:inline-block;
width:100px;
text-align:center;
}
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<ul id="usuarios">
<li>ayer</li>
<li>amor</li>
<li>gab</li>
<li>rio</li>
<li>bestia</li>
<li>gorro</li>
<li>abrigo</li>
<li>jaula</li>
<li>zorra</li>
<li>tele</li>
</ul>