[jQuery] Re: "this" - Basic question

[Michael Geary]

Your question isn't really about "this", but about how to get some text that
isn't in its own element. It's just a text node inside the .tr element.
 
Can you put it in a span?
<div class="tr">
  <span class="x">my text please!</span>
  <div class="w">I dont want this children</div>
</div>
Then you could just use:
var tr = $('.x',this).html();
You can get the text from the HTML code you have, though. Here's one way
that comes to mind - but maybe there is something simpler. Are you sitting
down? :-)
var tr = $.trim( $(this).clone().children('.w').remove().end().html() );
Let's break that down (in fact, you may like to format it this way in your
code instead of the one-liner):
var tr = $.trim(         // remove extraneous whitespace when done
    $(this)              // jQuery object for the element
        .clone()         // clone it so we don't change the original
        .children('.w')  // select the div.w child element
            .remove()    // remove it
        .end()           // go back to the cloned element
        .html()          // and get its HTML
);
(We'll see how much of that formatting survives posting...)
 
-Mike



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From: jquery-en@googlegroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Mario Moura
Sent: Friday, September 05, 2008 11:51 AM
To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
Subject: [jQuery] "this" - Basic question


Hi Folks

I have:

$(".tr").each(function(i){ 
$(this).bind("click", function(event){
    var tr = $(this).html();
    .....


My html is

<div class="tr">my text please!
  <div class="w">I dont want this children</div>
</div>

I am trying select only "my text please!" without children().

I tried .remove() .not(".w") .not("div.w") and a lot of variations

Look I am not working in the "document" I have this in "this" argument.

so 

$(this).html() = my text please! <div class="w">I dont want this
children</div>

so I want remove <div class="w">I dont want this children</div>

Regards

Mario
macm