i think you will need to feed a variable, because jquery loops through
each node, so:
var fullText ='';
$('body *').each(function(){
fullText += $(this).text();
});
On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 3:24 PM, Jake McGraw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ah why not try $("body").text() That should strip all of the markup?
>
> - jake
>
>
>
> On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Okay I have read and reread
> http://www.learningjquery.com/2006/11/how-to-get-anything-you-want-part-1
> >
> > and
> >
> > http://www.learningjquery.com/2006/12/how-to-get-anything-you-want-part-2
> >
> > and still cannot figure out how to grab all the text (not the markup)
> > on a page. I am toying with the Google Translation API and am
> > attempting to parse all text, translate, and put it back. I have the
> > looping logic (and the 500 char limit issue with Google) sorted out,
> > but I can't get the fundamental part down...GRABBING ALL THE TEXT.
> >
> > So let's say you have markup like so
> >
> > <ul>
> > <li><a href=somelink>blabh blah 1</a></li>
> > <li><a href=somelink>blabh blah 2</a></li>
> > <li><a href=somelink>blabh blah 3</a></li>
> > </ul>
> >
> > and even
> >
> > <h1>some heading</h1>
> >
> > and
> >
> > <p>Some paragraph text</p>
> >
> > etc. etc.
> >
> > I want to be able to grab all the text and manipulate it.
> >
> > I've tried $("#mainContainerDiv *").each(...some function....), but
> > this crashed the system.
> >
> > I would like to do something like this:
> >
> > $("#mainContainerDiv *.text".each(....some function...), but this
> > clearly won't work.
> >
> > Any help is greatly appreciated.
> >
> >
>
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