[jQuery] Re: get parent element text while excluding child element text

2008-10-03 Thread ricardobeat
Hmm.. that seems like a dead end in jQuery, it can't handle Text objects obtained from text nodes. either text(), html() or contents() return nothing. We're left with two text objects to which we can't do anything useful. The only way I found to get the text is $('p').contents().filter("[nodeTyp

[jQuery] Re: get parent element text while excluding child element text

2008-10-03 Thread ricardobeat
Just found a different way of doing this: var text = $('#tes').contents().filter("[nodeType=3]"); http://docs.jquery.com/Traversing/contents http://www.w3schools.com/Dom/dom_nodetype.asp - ricardo On Oct 3, 11:37 am, Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Those methods are destructive though. >

[jQuery] Re: get parent element text while excluding child element text

2008-10-03 Thread Michael
Those methods are destructive though. A co-worker just came up with this very nice solution: alert($('#test').clone().children().remove().end().text()); = On Oct 3, 10:09 am, "Mauricio \(Maujor\) Samy Silva" <[EMAIL

[jQuery] Re: get parent element text while excluding child element text

2008-10-03 Thread Mauricio (Maujor) Samy Silva
1-) alert($('*', $('p')).remove().text()) 2-) alert($('*', $('p')).empty().text()) $('*', $('p')) // contextual selector: finds all HTML elements inside the paragraphs. Chain with empty() ou remove() according your needs Maurício Is there a more elegant, concise, pure jQuery approach to