Hi everybody, new member here. I have a project with the following snipped of code:
=====start html===== <div class="line"> <div name="tln4" id="tln4" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>As I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion <div name="tln5" id="tln5" class="ln tln">5</div>bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand <div name="tln6" id="tln6" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>crowns, and, as thou say'st, charged my brother, <div name="tln7" id="tln7" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>on his blessing, to breed me well; and <div name="tln8" id="tln8" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>there begins my sadness. My brother Jaques he keeps <div name="tln9" id="tln9" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>at school, and report speaks goldenly of his profit. <div name="tln10" id="tln10" class="ln tln">10</div>For my part, he keeps me rustically at home, or, to speak <div name="tln11" id="tln11" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>more properly, stays me here at home unkept; for call <div name="tln12" id="tln12" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>you that "keeping" for a gentleman of my birth that differs <div name="tln13" id="tln13" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>not from the stalling of an ox? His horses are bred <div name="tln14" id="tln14" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>better, for, besides that they are fair with their feeding, <div name="tln15" id="tln15" class="ln tln">15</div>they are taught their man�ge, and to that end riders <div name="tln16" id="tln16" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>dearly hired; but I, his brother, gain nothing under <div name="tln17" id="tln17" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>him but growth, for the which his animals on his <div name="tln18" id="tln18" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>dunghills are as much bound to him as I. Besides this nothing <div name="tln19" id="tln19" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>that he so plentifully gives me, the something that <div name="tln20" id="tln20" class="ln tln">20</div>nature gave me his countenance seems to take from <div name="tln21" id="tln21" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>me. He lets me feed with his hinds, bars me the <div name="tln22" id="tln22" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>place of a brother, and as much as in him lies, mines my <div name="tln23" id="tln23" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>gentility with my education. This is it, Adam, that <div name="tln24" id="tln24" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>grieves me; and the spirit of my father, which I think <div name="tln25" id="tln25" class="ln tln">25</div>is within me, begins to mutiny against this servitude. <div name="tln26" id="tln26" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>I will no longer endure it, though yet I know no wise <div name="tln27" id="tln27" class="ln tln"> <!----> </div>remedy how to avoid it. <!----> </div> ====End HTML==== I have a short selection of text and a tln that the text should be found near. I wan to use jquery to find this text node so that i can manipulate it. My trouble is that I dont understand how the DOM treats text nodes and element nodes. So say for example i had the information (tln21) and a text snippet "He lets me". What i tried was: $("#tln21').siblings() But this is only returning element siblings, not text siblings. what can i do here? thanks for any help.