Hi! Here's a plugin that does it for you: http://code.google.com/p/jquery-translate/ It grabs the text the way you described, but if a tag has childnodes and textnodes too then it grabs its innerhtml. So i.e. if a paragraph has 'a' tags inside then the paragraphs innerhtml will be translated. On larger sites the looping unfortunately can take a couple of seconds but in most cases it's bearable.
joemccann wrote: > > > Okay I have read and reread > http://www.learningjquery.com/2006/11/how-to-get-anything-you-want-part-1 > > and > > http://www.learningjquery.com/2006/12/how-to-get-anything-you-want-part-2 > > and still cannot figure out how to grab all the text (not the markup) > on a page. I am toying with the Google Translation API and am > attempting to parse all text, translate, and put it back. I have the > looping logic (and the 500 char limit issue with Google) sorted out, > but I can't get the fundamental part down...GRABBING ALL THE TEXT. > > So let's say you have markup like so > > <ul> > <li> somelink blabh blah 1 </li> > <li> somelink blabh blah 2 </li> > <li> somelink blabh blah 3 </li> > </ul> > > and even > > <h1>some heading</h1> > > and > > <p>Some paragraph text</p> > > etc. etc. > > I want to be able to grab all the text and manipulate it. > > I've tried $("#mainContainerDiv *").each(...some function....), but > this crashed the system. > > I would like to do something like this: > > $("#mainContainerDiv *.text".each(....some function...), but this > clearly won't work. > > Any help is greatly appreciated. > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Selector-Madness%21--How-to-Select-all-the-Text-on-a-Page--tp17018965s27240p17043744.html Sent from the jQuery General Discussion mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
