Hi,
I thank you all for your help.
I guess I'll go with Bohdan's suggestion.
I'll put the text inside another tag (probably p tag...).
thanks again for all your help,
if you think of anything else please let me know.
Kazuar
Bohdan Ganicky wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> maybe it could be easier to use the good old DOM in this scenario:
>
> var textNode = $('#testText').get().firstChild; // now we have the
> textNode
> var textRaw = textNode.nodeValue; // now we have the text string with
> all the white-space around
> var text = $.trim(textRaw); // we strip the trailing white-space using
> the jQuery trim function
>
> Of course this works as expected only if the text you're looking for
> is placed in the #testText's first textNode.
>
> I'd recommend using more meaningful markup instead and putting the
> text inside <p> element. ;)
>
> --
> Bohdan Ganicky
>
> On Jan 12, 11:55 am, kazuar <kazuar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> hello, Im kinda new in jquery so maybe its a begginer question.
>> I have a page with a div containing some text and a combobox.
>> something like that
>>
>> <div id="testText">
>> hello this is text and this is combobox
>> <select><option value='1'>1</option><option value='2'>2</option><option
>> value='3'>3</option></select></div>
>>
>> I wrote a function which return the text from the div.
>>
>> alert($('#testText').text());
>>
>> My problem is that the function also return the text inside the
>> combobox.
>> is there a way to filter out the combobox text?
>>
>> the only workaround I can think of is to wrap my text in another div and
>> call its text.
>> This workaround will be a bit complicated for me because the text on my
>> page
>> is dynamic and it can come after the input field or before the input
>> field
>> so I just want to get the text inside the div without the input fields
>> text... (This only happens with combobox).
>>
>> tnx,
>> Kazuar
>>
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