thanks a lot ricardobeat.
work like a charm :)
ricardobeat wrote:
>
>
> There are two alternatives:
>
> $('#testText').contents(':not(select)')[0].nodeValue;
>
> this one is unsupported but works too:
>
> $('#testText').contents('[nodeType=3]')[0].nodeValue;
>
> Notice that both will keep the linebreaks. if text() could handle
> textnodes this would be much easier.
>
> - ricardo
>
> On Jan 12, 2:43 pm, kazuar <kazuar...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 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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