$("#tln21').text();This will return the text associated with id="tln21". http://docs.jquery.com/Attributes/text Joe www.subprint.com On May 5, 2:34 pm, darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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.
