_IF_ you only have text in your LIs then...
$('li').each(function(){
alert($(this).html().match(/^([^<]*)/)[0]);
});
On Nov 2, 5:35 pm, "Jonathan Sharp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm sure there's a more elegant solution but you could do something like:
>
> // Untested
> var about = $( 'selector for the li' ).clone().find('>
> ul').remove().end().html();
>
> Cheers,
> -Jonathan
>
> On 11/2/07, sawmac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> > I'm trying to select text inside list items. I'm using
> > jQuery's .text( ) method. Unfortunately, that returns the text of all
> > children as well. That means for a nested list like this
>
> > <ul>
> > <li>index.html</li>
> > <li>about
> > <ul>
> > <li>index.html</li>
> > <li>more.html</li>
> > </ul>
> > </li>
> > </ul>
>
> > $('li').eq(1).text() returns
> > 'about
> > index.html
> > more.html'
>
> > I just want to retrieve "about" not the text from the child list
> > items. Any ideas on how to do that?
>
> > thanks
