You know how sometimes you are working on a problem and you stare at
it so long that the most obvious answers escape you until someone
points it out and it is like a smack in the face?
Yeah. Serious 'duh' moment on my part. Thanks.
On Feb 5, 3:32 pm, MorningZ wrote:
> Can you just make life REALLY easy on yourself and put the text in a
> tag or something?
>
> ie/
>
>
> List Item1
> List Item2
>
> Sub Item1
> Sub Item2
>
>
>
>
> then
>
> http://docs.jquery.com/Selectors/firstChild
>
> would make it a snap to get the text()
>
> On Feb 5, 3:00 pm, "amazz...@gmail.com" wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to traverse a list that has some sub-lists nested, i.e.
> >
> > List Item1
> > List Item2
> >
> > Sub Item1
> > Sub Item2
> >
> >
> >
>
> > I'm trying to grab the text of List Item2, but without the text of the
> > sublist items. Right now if I use:
> > $('ul li').text() -- it returns the text of the List Item and the
> > text of any sub items.
>
> > I'm thinking I may have to write a regular expression to filter out
> > the sublist, but was wondering if jQuery could handle this? Any ideas
> > appreciated.
>
> > AM
